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Re:The Case for Making Humans Smaller by grondilu on Sunday November 15, 2015 @02:43AM (#10568851)
If overpopulation really is a problem, is it not much easier to control population? It's probably much easier to convince someone to have at most two children, rather than to convince him/her to let scientists fiddle with their gametes so that their children are dwarves.
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Re:The Case for Making Humans Smaller by cronjobber on Sunday November 15, 2015 @04:02AM (#10568998)
There seem to be psychological barriers to public discussion of the (many!) downsides of ever-growing populations. I guess people feel like they're discussing genocide.
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Re:The Case for Making Humans Smaller by jusssi on Sunday November 15, 2015 @04:16AM (#10569023)
Ironic, the longer we put off that discussion, the more likely we actually end up with a genocide instead of some controlled solution.
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