Mr WindyBoyle,

Sock-puppets are generally frowned upon on OLO.

Saltpetre,

You are one of the more genuine characters on this forum - a breath of fresh air, in fact.
I'm not Squeers, nor am I Pericles, although I tend to favour their views.
Most contributors don't go in for multiple identities, so you are in the majority there.

Cheers

Saltpetre you exhibit hypocicy in the extreme in accusing me of a secret eugenic agenda when it was you who expressed concern about a fertility control virus being indiscriminate and preventing those who deserve to have more children (presumably westerners) from doing so.

The indiscriminate nature of a virus is precisely what would make that form of involuntary fertility control as fair as possible and immune from any people who have ethnic cleansing or eugenic desires.

"Of course, Gadhaafi and Assad would rather just kill those who oppose them - a sure-fire way to ensure they're not going to have any more kids - and then use their soldiers to make up the pregnancy deficiency, but with good little loyalists."

We will get more and more of this sort of behaviour if we fail to slash human fertility quickly enough by what ever means. And I have little doubt that this behaviour will spread to parts of the west and be perpetrated by our governments.

"Maybe there's a chance for a different virus - the loyalty to poverty and enslavement virus?)"

Now your just being idiotic again!

And I really don't give a rats if Syria et el used my virus idea to quell political dissent rather than the services of their armed forces. Like I said, a fertility control virus would be some improvement on heavy machine guns and tanks.

I only care about the global ecosystem and the survival of western civilisation. I am not remotely concerned with the politics of individual non-democratic countries.

If my alternate longins were meant to be sock puppets then I would not make it obvious that I am the same person.

And Saltpetre, before you start denying that you have expressed any views with a eugenic character......

Did you or did you not post this:

"but the fact is the world would be better off if people of intelligence and means had a few children (maybe even a few more), and the least gifted had a few less"

You have have said that you object to my virus idea because it is to random and will target the wrong sorts of people!

That is precisely what the third Reich thought about Aryans in comparison to Jews, Gypsies and negros etc

Perhaps you are right Saltpetre.

If even your good self, as a self appointed guardian of non-discrimination and human rights etc in this forum, cannot be trusted not to slip into a eugenic / white supremacist mentality then perhaps we indeed can't afford to try a biological means of fertility control.

Lest it be co opted as a means of ethnic or eugenic cleansing by unscrupulous folks such as yourself as it turns out.