Numbat get used to the laws of nature. Most women shed around 400
eggs in their lifetimes, all potentially cute babies. Darwin
was right, they can't all survive and there is no room on the planet
for all of them. 6 billion humans is already more then enough,
what we are doing now is not sustainable, so even more humans will make things even worse.

All emotion and no reason is dangerous, even for numbats...

Kaspa,

Your reasoning is not complex it is bizarre.

None the less you remain my hero Kaspa. I honestly think you are a genius.

As far as I'm concerned RU486 should be made available. If people want to live like that they have my blessing. As for side effects the more the merrier.

Yabby

I'm sorry, but that is just ridiculous reasoning if you ask me. Along the same lines of thought you have proposed, we might as well take a whole group of people (take a few million, maybe a country) and gas them in their sleep.

They will feel no pain, and we will be assisting the human race in preventing it from overpopulation. I mean, like you said, we don't need more people on the planet?? All they really are is a bunch of DNA, and as Darwin says survival of the fittest! The fact that they are too weak to stop it obviously means that they are victims of plain natural selection.

And as Yabby said, don't want to hear any of this emotional "human rights" nonsense. Reason not emotion!

Frogmouth
How can we apply that reasoning?

Say a thief robs a gentlemen's house clean. Then the gentlemen gets infuriated, finds out who it is, and kills them. If the gentlemen said in court "Well you don't know what a difficult position I was put in, so unless you experience it how can you judge me?", the judge would say it's irrelevant.

This is because we hold human life as sacred, a human isn't just a bunch of cells to do with as we desire.

Justin, your imagination goes well beyond your ability to reason it seems. A bunch of dividing cells is not a person. No functioning brain etc. Now you talk of gassing people, sheesh...

If you understand a little about biology, you will understand that without biodiversity there is no humanity. Ecosystems need to be
sustainable, wall to wall humans is not sustainable. We need to live on this planet sustainably, or there won't be a humanity to be concerned about. Its as simple as that. 80 million per year increase in the human population is not sustainable either.

But lets look at it another way. You go on about the sanctity of
human life, so does the Vatican. The Vatican is worth billions, yet would prefer to let babies starve, rather then give up that wealth.
You would prefer to argue with me on OLO, then sell your computer and save another 3 starving babies in Africa. Thats why I see your comments and those of the Vatican about the sanctity of human life as mere rhetoric and trying to tell others how to live their lives.
So why should I take notice of a hyprocrite?

yabby: You are a smug, abusive, intolerant person.
Anyone who has an opinion different from yours you see as a twerp.
If, as you say, this earth will not hold more people then maybe you and your family could do the decent thing :-)?
By the way I know we lose all those INFERTILE ovum, would you believe? The other ones that have been fertilsed are on their way to becoming breathing, thinking human beings. Forget the thinking bit and they would be just like you. numbat