Houellie,

While I often appreciate your own valiant attempts at perverse humour, I'm perplexed that you find Col's standard quite so endearing. Col chooses elegant prose to puff himself up, but I'm still searching for any substance. Reading his stuff gives one the impression of Oscar Wilde without the wit.
Col's attempts to give the impression of patrician elegance come across more as plebian boastfulness....which can be entertaining, but I'm laughing at him not his "clever" prose.

Anyway, what is a "master man"? His banter is more likely to make you throw up than to have you bowing and scraping at his feet.

Col's sort of self-aggrandisment is a piffling version of middle-class decadence, but one that throws a light on the attitudes that drive Western hegemony

Squeers, the whole point of my suggestion for a fertility control virus is to reduce human suffering as humanely as possible when compared to the human suffering that will inevitably increase through disease, famine, war and genocide etc if we do nothing.

A virus (is effectively a nanite) that kills 1 person in 10 or what ever does nothing to reduce human suffering. And how would you limit it. Cold viruses, on the other hand, are clearly self limiting due to a long coevolution with humans.

Boylesy

Please come clean and call a spade a spade, in your case:

Eugenics is still eugenics no matter how you like to dress it up.

If your prefered strategy to deal with over population is a culling program then we need take no action on over population at all.

Mother nature cull us through famine and disease and we will cull ourselves through war and genocide over scarce food, water and resources.

I am not a eugenicist and I do not believe that any particular race is superior to any other.

But I do believe that ecology and ecological limits apply to humans and our civilisation equally as they do to other animals.

Humans are currently in massive ecological overshoot and we have a choice.

Allow mother nature to cull us through famine, disease, war and genocide to bring the human population back into balance with the ecosystem or try to short circuit this ugly process by controlling our fertility as humanely as possible.

I prefer the latter choice for the sake of my two children.

There are far better ways to achieve population balance than by the method you favour.

Previous posters have suggested such.

Eugenics would be inevitably be involved if your methods are used - someone has to decide which populations need culling.