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by thro388 1378 days ago
If we reduce global population to 100M, most of those problems would be solved.
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When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem.
Agent Smith agrees with that.

Also it's a manifestation of utilitaristic induced psychopathy, of course.

1. What do we do with mega-genocidal ideas like that?

2. Populations of psychopaths do not form stable civilizations

How do you reduce the population to 100M in a way that does not make you look worse than Hitler?
Make food and energy expensive, forbid agriculture, release genetically designed disseases...
Expand access to birth control to every woman world-wide.
Imagine being a problem to figure out how do you look (propaganda) instead of having done an unspeakable evil while envisioning yourself as a savior of humanity.

That's precisely how the Stalin/Mao/Hitlers types are fabricated.