TSwizzle
I am unburdened by what has been.
That's a tautology -- the people who aren't pretty much the same aren't like Merle. Those you have in mind who want mass culls or forced abortions or forced sterilization aren't pretty much the same as him, and labeling them "people like Merle" misrepresents him.People like Merle are pretty much the same.... That's Poisoning the Well. Don't do that.Oh yes you are focused ononefinal solution. ... Is really theonlyfinal solution in the diatribe.
Well, in the first place, if somebody really were implying forced abortions or forced sterilization is necessary, those things aren't a "final solution". China did the whole forced abortion thing back in the days of the One Child policy, and half the western world did the whole forced sterilization thing. (The U.S. didn't stop until 1981; the Czech Republic kept doing it until 2001.) That didn't make China or the west into Nazi Germanies. So even if these things really were what "people like Merle" advocated, your "final solution" rhetoric would still be misplaced.They point out the human population is out of control and needs to be reined in. What are we going to do they ask. Round and round in circles they go, "I'm not advocating mass culls or forced abortions or forced sterilization or anything like but what are we going to do?"
And in the second place,for a problem where these things are the ONLY solution to reduce the human population by x billion by 2060 or whatever. It's another anti human cult.
You say X.I think X implies Y.--------------------Therefore, you're arguing for Y.
is a fallacy too. It isn't logical to casually mix your premises with somebody else's premises like that. Your opinion that these things are the ONLY solution to reduce the human population by x billion by 2060 or whatever entitles you to tell Merle the moderate approaches he has in mind can't work; it doesn't entitle you to tell him the extreme approaches you think could work automatically have to be what he's focused on.
In a nutshell, Merle and the rest of the anti human cultists view humans as a blight on the planet, parasites if you will. You don't really need to read too deep to see that. Merle's "path forward" that he linked to is strong on reducing the human population to some arbitrary number (2 billion I thought I saw somewhere) quickly. In fact I think that was his only "solution" or rather a non solution because, heaven forbid, Merle would NEVER suggest such a thing *wink* *wink*. The rest was just waffle.
Anyway, I appreciate your input. I'm tapping out.