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No More Overseas Travel? - Running out of oil? 5-Nov-2007 At 12:03:02 AM m9whereisthat

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You forgot to add that they look funny anthonyk. Eat funny food too.

On 3/11/2007 anthonyk wrote:
>i definitely disagree- if you have the values to act responsibly etc its
>much better that you have children, because they will be influenced to
>a great deal to carry those same values and share them with other people.
> western population is not the problem, there's far more people in other
>parts of the world.
>
>probably the most constructive thing you can do is to encourage having
>responsible people in the areas of greatest influence. this idea of the
>people aware of the issues sacrificing themselves for the ones who either
>don't care or aren't aware of their influence is just stupid.
>
>this idea of trying to educate all the people that already exist instead
>of having your own children is pretty silly, like its constructive to stop
>sustaining your own part of society to make space for people from africa
>with an average birth rate of 7+ children per woman, or arabs who have
>30 children from the same father that only get to live with him a fraction
>of the time (eg osama bin laden). and yes not having children does literally
>make space- our immigration rate is based on the replacement rate of the
>population, so if you want your niche in society to be gradually replaced
>by people who are less likely to give a damn the best thing you can do
>is to not have children and to encourage others to do the same.
>