A Protocol for Dying

Re:A Protocol for Dying by anonymous779 on Friday April 22, 2016 @10:32AM (#11549472)

If you gave modern-age people a choice: to live a short life or live a long life while limiting their rate of childbirth (or ceasing reproduction altogether), I think many would choose the former. Having a choice is always better than having none.

Also note that your current (probably?) western lifestyle puts several times more load on the environment than mine 3rd world-like one. It is the wasteful lifestyle choices made by living people that are really a problem, not the quantity of people in itself.

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Re:A Protocol for Dying by emodendroket on Friday April 22, 2016 @12:06PM (#11550180)

Well, yes, but even if everyone lived a third-world lifestyle I don't think we could realistically support 108 billion people today.

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Re:A Protocol for Dying by anonymous779 on Friday April 22, 2016 @12:27PM (#11550330)

We don't have to, these (108-7) billions of people will (sadly) never ever come back. We have just 7.3 bln people and a planet with more than enough resources to sustain them and then some more (I could give some practical computations regarding the limits to growth, but I won't waste our time doing that here). So your whole argument about all people that have ever lived is basically a strawman.

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Re:A Protocol for Dying by emodendroket on Friday April 22, 2016 @01:34PM (#11550869)

Well, how long do we expect the post-death utopia to last?

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