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I'm Concerned About Population Control

I don't agree with what the woman's sign says, but if ever some type of population control, a book I read not so long ago suggested a very humane way to implement population control.

In this book, a very determined scientist _created a virus that would render 1/3 of the planets population will decrease each gener[qde|ation until the Earth has not too many many but not so few that we'd be in danger of extinction, because I imagine that other geneticist would be working to stop that extinction from happening. Creating something to make humans suffer and die is simply not right. With too many bodies laying around, diseases would run rampant, and it'd smell simply aweful! And how do you dispose of the bodies you can without polluting the planet any further? There wouldn't be enough ground to bury them all in.
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Invisible · 26-30, M
Everyone who survived the black plague had three times as much wealth as they did before. Do those ends justify the means? Also, it's really, really easy to dispose of bodies in a space efficient manner when you cremate them all, as Hitler found out during WWII.
Picklebobble · 56-60, M
They may have survived but I doubt there's any evidence to suggest they were wealthier because of it!
Invisible · 26-30, M
When over 2/3 of the common folk die, there's a bit of a land grab. Yeah, it might not be resources that retain all of their value (e.g. farmland that goes untended), but it's definitely something.