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Better ways to thin the herd

posted 8 years ago by leiastarkiller
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The first two I thought of they did mention in the film that other countries are doing. Killing the oldest 5% or limiting children seem like much more fair ideas.

What's the point of killing a 5 year that fails an academic test rather than a 95 year that's probably suffering from dementia? At least the dumb 5 year has the possibility of becoming an asset to society. The oldest people will never contribute again.

They could also kill all the sick people. Those with incurable though not necessarily fatal diseases. Get rid of everyone with diabetes, Parkinson's, all the quadriplegics etc. Free up the health care system.

Another option is take out all the criminals. Rapists, murderers, thieves, drug dealers. Why should they get to live while an innocent child is killed because of a bad grade?

Forced sterilization is probably the most humane method though. It's how we keep the cat and dog populations down. They could even keep the test and just sterilize the dumbest children so they don't reproduce instead of killing them.

[–] SnoopyDogDog 8 years ago

But the whole idea of killing people to stop global warming is flawed. How ever, if that is your goal, you should kill people who a yuuuuuge carbon footprint, like those who own private jets, big mansion and Hummers, not prisoners who use very little energy: they share their energy uses with 1000s of others.

Of course, it would have been better to NOT kill anyone, but to FORCE people to use less energy and FORCE them to switch to green energy.

CEOs are only abusing the environment anyway, producing crap for us no one needs, like Big Macs and all that Walmart crap.

Atheism is a religion like [u]NOT [/u]collecting stamps is a hobby

[–] DanTUtilize (282) 8 years ago

These are good points. My favorite is ridding the murderers/thieves/drug/gang people instead

[–] imdb-484 (123) 8 years ago

Yeah, seems to me that it was only The Great State Of Texas that took that crazy decision to rid itself of its chillun. Could be, though, that the reason behind the madness was to discourage people from having children.

Think about it: if you knew that any kids you had would stand a chance of being exterminated like rats, it would kind of put you off having any, right? So, if you live in TX, you have not just one way of culling the population (by murdering the kids); but two ways (by discouraging people from having any in the first place)!

Suddenly, it doesn't seem like such a crazy idea after all, right? (j/k)