not in Japan they dontThe_root_of_all_evil said:
in a world where overpopulation could and is already starting to happen I applaud our japanese brothers for decreasing the population by 20% without even resorting to violence *tips hat*
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in a world where overpopulation could and is already starting to happen I applaud our japanese brothers for decreasing the population by 20% without even resorting to violence *tips hat*
I would like to find a girlfriend, but as a recent college grad I rather find a job and settle my life down so I can take care of myself. If I can't manage my own life why would I want someone wasting theirs on mine, cause I sure as shit wouldn't do that for a girl.
No. They will argue that it is a pre-existing condition not covered by your plan.Clive Howlitzer said:
Also: my cents.
I see the point being made - that having an uncomplicated alternative to dealing with another persons ego is tempting and overdoing it can be counter productive.
It depends on what the person wants. young people are often told to "get a job. for security." Maybe previous generations have overstated the importance of becoming financially independent over finding someone to team up with. In effect educating young people with an ethos of "bring the full package to the table, that will ensure success." What may happen is that many young people grow up dedicating more time to improving their academic credentials in order to become an attractive mate, but spend less time acquiring the one-on-one social skills they need to make a relationship.
Jerry Sadowitz had the solution to this problem over 10 years ago, it's down having an aging population living longer thru advances in medicine, along with less money around to support having a larger family.
In short:
"All old people should be shot at birth!"
Or, have the 'In Time' idea of everyone lives to a certain age, tho I'd set it around 50. Gives people time to have kids and bring them up to adulthood.
If you knew you died at 50, I imagine it'd be an extra incentive to try to achieve things.
In short:
"All old people should be shot at birth!"
Or, have the 'In Time' idea of everyone lives to a certain age, tho I'd set it around 50. Gives people time to have kids and bring them up to adulthood.
If you knew you died at 50, I imagine it'd be an extra incentive to try to achieve things.
Well, there's a little blue pill...tehweave said:
Joke.
I think the point is meant to be that some individuals with low confidence (or other problems that make it difficult to find a partner) may convince themselves that they don't actually want one as a way of avoiding dealing with the issue. This works in the short term, but there is a possible danger of becoming locked into this negative way of thinking.
Statistics indicate that people in long term relationships are generally happier than those who aren't. Although it's unclear whether this is due to relationships making people happier, or happy people making more attractive partners.
Whatever the reasoning, this whole suggestion is probably just another ploy by the Japanese government to combat their ageing population. So it's not really applicable to countries like the USA that don't have this problem.
Only by the same logic that malnutrition is bad for you, therefore obese people are really healthy.The_root_of_all_evil said:
Unfortunately, yes. Japan is actually very conservative when it comes to sexuality. The existence of material like Yaoi in Japan is no more an indicator of widespread acceptance of homosexuality than the existence of hard-core pornography in the USA being an indicator that the average American likes to double-penetrate his wife.oneeyemug said:
When was the last time you were in Britain?fenrizz said:
Actually, holidaying in popular destinations for British tourists was enough to formulate that opinion. I was literally the ONLY guy there not to fulfil some sort or archetype for the young British male (Stupid dress sense, spiky hair, crap attitude).
Also, the first sentence was "I don't have a girlfriend, but that's no big deal". I have no intention to pick up the shallow, vain, ditzy slags that grace my generation.
Indians, who seems to have smaller than average [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6161691.stm] seems to be doing all right.The_root_of_all_evil said:
this is a GOOD THING. we are overpopulating. its about time we slow that down and stop ruining earth. then again, i guess you have to be pretty ill yourself to come up with something like this.
Theres always the i would shoot you first before i would go with you to a "open party" people like me that would bail out anyway.iLikeHippos said:
If it's not an awkward question, how old are you? Because your opinions on your own generation seem worryingly similar to my own...Boyninja616 said:
More on topic: I can kinda see the point this guy's making, but serious illness? Maybe something got lost in translation somewhere down the line...
Thing is, this lowering birth rate and aging population isn't just Japan - it's considered a problem here in Australia too. Also, one of my Taiwanese friends told me it was a problem there as well. In fact, it seems to be a problem in most developed countries. It almosts seems as if the more educated people are and the more access they have to material wealth the less interested they become in raising children. . .
Lots of people here in Japan suffer from a disease called `having next to no money`. Having children is expensive in Japan. It is so expensive that I think that those who actually WANT children should have their head examined.
If the government wants people to have more babies, it should allow health insurance to be used in pre-natal checks and childbirth. Currently, pregnancy is not covered by health insurance because it is "not a disease".
I am sure that there are many happy men out there bursting to the seams with virility, but just cannot afford to have a family/girlfriend. With all the medical checks and having to buy a house/rent a bigger place you are virtually put into a slave debt/debt slavery to pay for all those mouths you have to feed in your new family (yay, I love working for the bank).
The whole "cartoons makes people sick" is just a cover for the effects of a 20 year recession which has limited both salaries and prospects.
If the government wants people to have more babies, it should allow health insurance to be used in pre-natal checks and childbirth. Currently, pregnancy is not covered by health insurance because it is "not a disease".
I am sure that there are many happy men out there bursting to the seams with virility, but just cannot afford to have a family/girlfriend. With all the medical checks and having to buy a house/rent a bigger place you are virtually put into a slave debt/debt slavery to pay for all those mouths you have to feed in your new family (yay, I love working for the bank).
The whole "cartoons makes people sick" is just a cover for the effects of a 20 year recession which has limited both salaries and prospects.
China is mostly rural countryside.Imp Emissary said:
Japan's problem is most of it's population is concentrated into the cities on the coast, China has millions upon millions of small towns that don't suffer Beijing Smog (that also send vast numbers of young people born in them to work in the cities), Japan has very few people living in the mountains and most of the rest in it's coastal conurbations.
Wrong! You need to have a dumb, blonde girlfriend that will only suck money out of you, complain all the time and break up with you because you think her poodle is annoying piece of shit and you don't like Twilight!Boyninja616 said:
And apparently everyone who isn't trying to fuck everything that moves is ill...
This man has listened one Queen track too many. Or he's just trying to... I have no idea what, frankly. World is as fucking overpopulated as it is, and he wants people to have MORE children?
The random Mess of Neurons we call "Brains" has a few things not functioning the Way we like them. We're all mental in one way or another.
So yes, i am mentally ill in the Way described in the Article. If you want to call that an illness. I don't feel ill and unless i somehow tread on other Peoples freedom in any way i can be as ill as i "like" to be.
I do realize that this means i wont procreate and i'm ok with that. The World will have to do without my Offspring and it'll be fine.
Oh well, apparently i'm too much of a pathetic Loser to have any Woman be interested in me. I'll have to make do without one.
I can do that. Is that a Symptom? Thinking one can live without Company when Society pretty much tells us that we can't? I feel more like a Rebel against the Rules of Society then a pathetic Idiot who's too stupid and too afraid to talk to the Ladies.
The Ladies will have to make do without me. And they'll be fine.
So yes, i am mentally ill in the Way described in the Article. If you want to call that an illness. I don't feel ill and unless i somehow tread on other Peoples freedom in any way i can be as ill as i "like" to be.
I do realize that this means i wont procreate and i'm ok with that. The World will have to do without my Offspring and it'll be fine.
Oh well, apparently i'm too much of a pathetic Loser to have any Woman be interested in me. I'll have to make do without one.
I can do that. Is that a Symptom? Thinking one can live without Company when Society pretty much tells us that we can't? I feel more like a Rebel against the Rules of Society then a pathetic Idiot who's too stupid and too afraid to talk to the Ladies.
The Ladies will have to make do without me. And they'll be fine.
