"The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population - is to ask him whether he is the

Posted: Jan 16th, 2018 - 2:28 am In Reply to: What this planet needs is a culling of the - population.

surplus population; or if he is not, how he knows he is not. That is the answer which the Spirit of Christmas gives to Scrooge."

~G.K. Chesterton: Introduction to A Christmas Carol. (1922)

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We are DEvolving, not Evolving - MaryJane (Views: 637, 2018-01-13, 12:38 am)
- I totally agree. We are going further and further down the - rabbit hole. (Views: 459, 2018-01-13, 3:21 am)
- What this planet needs is a culling of the - population. (Views: 447, 2018-01-13, 8:26 am)
  - And will you be first in line to be annihilated? Oh, that's only - for the other guy. nm (Views: 456, 2018-01-13, 1:14 pm)
    - Survival of the fittest. Nature/God has been culling mankind since the beginning - Wake Up! (Views: 402, 2018-01-14, 2:50 pm)
      - So easy to say.... until you need help yourself. - Rather selfish attitude. (Views: 453, 2018-01-14, 6:31 pm)
        You miss the point. No one is to blame or God or nature is to blame. - Wake Up! (Views: 379, 2018-01-15, 3:56 pm)
        Everbody is selfish now. - MeGeneration (Views: 313, 2018-01-21, 12:17 am)
      - Social Darwinian, if you look at people that - way (Views: 369, 2018-01-15, 2:15 am)
        Call it whatever you want, it's natural selection. - WaKe Up! (Views: 351, 2018-01-15, 4:03 pm)
      - Sounds like North Korea. - nm (Views: 430, 2018-01-15, 3:13 am)
        This is just an ignorant statement. There is a difference between - Wake Up! (Views: 357, 2018-01-15, 4:06 pm)
        Every one thinks the same in North Korea. That was - merely point I was trying to make. (Views: 711, 2018-01-16, 1:58 am)
  - So much for a woman's right to choose. Now we are - shamed into not having children. (Views: 339, 2018-01-16, 2:16 am)
  - "The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population - is to ask him whether he is the
  - No, but the US needs closure of its borders! - NM (Views: 299, 2018-01-21, 12:19 am)
- Wow...there are so many socioeconomic - Reasons for this (Views: 442, 2018-01-13, 11:31 am)
  - Socieconomics - MaryJane (Views: 441, 2018-01-13, 11:56 am)
    - Expand your knowledge base - Nm (Views: 409, 2018-01-13, 1:44 pm)
      - Open your mind to ideas that might frighten you. - nm (Views: 475, 2018-01-13, 3:41 pm)
      - I don't need to. - MaryJane (Views: 293, 2018-01-21, 12:12 am)
  - Tribalism is group think. Capitalism has nothing to do with it. - Tribalism is identity politics. (Views: 482, 2018-01-13, 3:39 pm)
- I was born in 1946. I'm not Jewish, but over the years I've - spoken to at least 50 people (Views: 509, 2018-01-13, 4:00 pm)
- Will you be kind enough - to justify your existence? (Views: 302, 2018-01-19, 7:37 am)
  - WOW. The Fabian Socialist removes their - Sheepskin (Views: 323, 2018-01-21, 12:15 am)