Poll: Should our species be exempt from culling?

[Cheesus333]

Let the ones who are promoting culling, be the first to be culled.

But you just... but that is... nevermind.

Anyway, it's pretty obvious from a two minute walk around any population centre that the world has more people than it needs. Not necessarily because there's too many, just because a majority of the billions of us - myself included - don't really do a lot to contribute to the growth and prosperity of the human race. Worse still, a lot of people (like criminals) are actually pushing us backwards.

I'm not saying kill these people - I don't think that rounding up the worst people we can find and sticking them in a furnace is the right way to go at all. But something needs to be done about their effect on the species, or we're not going anywhere fast.

 

[Belluavir]

What bothers me most about things like this is the idea that animals and the Earth (which is a living thing?) live in peace and harmony and perfect balance.
I have a dog and I know that if he was smart enough to build a machine that would cover the world in his own shit, he'd do it, and he'd love every second of rolling around in it and eating it, and he'd kill every kangaroo he saw just so he can roll around in its corpse.

 

[Vault101]

hell no..I thourght we were better than the killing thing

oh and for those who love to trumpet "humans are bastards!" honeslty you think its that bad? then kill your self and there will be one less bastard in the world....oh whats that? you dont want to die? then stop complaining

honestly most people are jsut trying to get by and are not activley killing kittens

 

[Vault101]

I have to say that most of you guys are sick fucks.

If you want to "cull" the human population, there is something seriously wrong with you.

If you are worried about population growth, chill the fuck out, we aren't anywhere near the predicted limit of the population the earth can sustain and by the time we get there there will be a bunch of new technology that pushes that limit even further.

If you are up for limiting reproduction or preventing overpopulation or the destruction of the human race do us and your ideology a favour and fucking kill yourselves.

ohh but didn't you know? ALL humans are basterds....excpet for me....and my family....I should be the one who chooses!

ughhh yeah this thread is freking me out

 

[Darius Brogan]

I'm all for it. A Human life means no more to me than an animals... as horrible as that sounds.

I've even got the solution to the 'Yeah sure, but only if it's not me' problem: Regardless of opinion, put every living humans name into a computer and have it randomly select a given percentage out of every country in the world.

Those who get selected, get culled, those who don't get selected, cry in relief because they're cowards and are afraid of their own deaths.

 

[badgersprite]

Only if everyone who votes for culling are the ones who get to die and everyone who is against it lives.

People who believe in sick shit like this only believe in it because they think they're special snowflakes who are more worthy of life than other people. Screwing over other people is fine as long as you get all your lovely special privileges to feed your delusions of entitlement, right?

 

[DustyDrB]

Wow. A little over half of The Escapist forum goers are in favor of mass killings to avoid a problem that's predicted to correct itself naturally. Good to know...

 

[Darius Brogan]

Our species should not be exempt from culling because there's no difference between a human and a rabbit, fox, fish, tapeworm, whathaveyou...

 

[Ciaran Lunt]

I think eventually someone's got to do something that will be very unpopular and pragmatic for now we should probably remove all child benefits which in the west should slow us down for now could spend that money creating a better university system (just my opinion. but if we don't do something we are going to end up with something like this. I suggest giving more guns to hill billys and just encourage natural selection. maybe anyone who has been injured doing something incredibly stupid should not get nhs support by stupid i mean a bullet wound caused by your freind trying to shoot a beer can out of your hand

 

[Valkyrie101]

Human wellbeing > planet's wellbeing.

The planet is, ultimately, irrelevant. Humanity is the only thing that matters, Earth is just a temporary home base for us. You call us disgusting for destroying the environment, but what's the point of the environment without us?

It's point is to foster life, and we're not the only species appreciative of the lives we're given. There are millions of species on the planet, and we're ruining it for all of them.

What's the point of non-sentient life? Actually, we are the only species that appreciates the life we have. Because none of the others can think.

 

[Wicky_42]

We're the cullers not the cullees, lol. We make the rules, fuck everything else! Sure, we're gonna bring about our own destruction, but at least it will be on our terms

Go us...

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Depends, should a morally aware species support immoral measures?

 

[weirdsoup]

Culling? Not too sure about that. However, a mandatory "retirement" age of say 65 where people are euthanized wouldn't be a bad idea. This would reduce the amount of money governments have to spend on health and welfare for OAPs.

I would also introduce restrictions on breeding. I think that for people to have kids they should have to do more than just pass the practical exam. I think we should be looking at things like eduction level and physiological testing. This would again be saving government money as I've know girls in school in the UK who's big plan for life was to leave school at 16, get pregnant by the first guy who comes along so they can get a council house and live on benefits for their entire life. Something about that plan just plain disgusts me, so I think putting a stop to it is the way to go. More money saved by the government AND us as we're not having our taxes wasted on these morons. This would also, I believe, help cut down on crime as these sort of people tend to be from the sections of society where law and order mean very little.

Now, there's certain sections of society who you'll not stop rutting, so until they're licensed they'll need contraceptive injections, these are 99% effective and last about 3 months. Anyone who fails to comply, the answer is simple. Termination of any pregnancy and 12 months incarceration.

So, I'm not in favour of just random culling, but I do think that the human race's gene pool could use a little chlorine down the shallow end

 

[jamesworkshop]

Culling? That's sick. I'm all for cutting back on reproduction, but outright murder is just disgusting.

not murder... mass-murder. That makes it alright.
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Well the death of one is a tragedy, the death of millions is just a statistic afterall

 

[Darius Brogan]

Human wellbeing > planet's wellbeing.

The planet is, ultimately, irrelevant. Humanity is the only thing that matters, Earth is just a temporary home base for us. You call us disgusting for destroying the environment, but what's the point of the environment without us?

It's point is to foster life, and we're not the only species appreciative of the lives we're given. There are millions of species on the planet, and we're ruining it for all of them.

What's the point of non-sentient life? Actually, we are the only species that appreciates the life we have. Because none of the others can think.

You seem to have a very high opinion of yourself as a human being. Other animals can think just fine, they're naturally more simple than humans, that's it - that's all.
You say 'what's the point of the environment without us?' What makes us special? What makes us the most important? our ability to destroy anything we touch?

What's the point of sentient life? To make the flowers and the trees know just WHO is their better? To prove to the uncaring Earth that we can tear it apart with giant machines 'just because'?
Realistically speaking, Humans are the least intelligent creature on the planet. We introduced exotic species to non-native areas without thought to the consequences, and now look where we are? Foxes destroying native animal populations because they've got few predators, Rabbits destroying OTHER areas because the foxes are gone, Cane toads destroying the Australian environ because they've got no actual predators there.
When it all boils down, there's no real difference between a Human, a Tapeworm, or a Tulip, except shape.

 

[Valkyrie101]

Human wellbeing > planet's wellbeing.

The planet is, ultimately, irrelevant. Humanity is the only thing that matters, Earth is just a temporary home base for us. You call us disgusting for destroying the environment, but what's the point of the environment without us?

It's point is to foster life, and we're not the only species appreciative of the lives we're given. There are millions of species on the planet, and we're ruining it for all of them.

What's the point of non-sentient life? Actually, we are the only species that appreciates the life we have. Because none of the others can think.

You seem to have a very high opinion of yourself as a human being. Other animals can think just fine, they're naturally more simple than humans, that's it - that's all.

Untrue. Animals do not and cannot think in any meaningful sense.

You say 'what's the point of the environment without us?' What makes us special? What makes us the most important? our ability to destroy anything we touch?

Which species got into space again? Look at human achievements: there are many.

Look at what animals have achieved: nothing, ever.

What's the point of sentient life? To make the flowers and the trees know just WHO is their better? To prove to the uncaring Earth that we can tear it apart with giant machines 'just because'?
Realistically speaking, Humans are the least intelligent creature on the planet. We introduced exotic species to non-native areas without thought to the consequences, and now look where we are? Foxes destroying native animal populations because they've got few predators, Rabbits destroying OTHER areas because the foxes are gone, Cane toads destroying the Australian environ because they've got no actual predators there.

Because we're the only species with that kind of power or ability. Because we're the only species with a fucking intellect.

When it all boils down, there's no real difference between a Human, a Tapeworm, or a Tulip, except shape.

You are fucking crazy.

Are you really saying that we should kill off the only known example of intelligent life to make way for... trees? Learn to prioritise, or go and live among wild animals since they're so wonderful.

Not willing to? Well you've just proven yourself wrong.

 

[Madman123456]

"We" aren't really "needed" for anything. The World will keep on turning for quite some time with us or without us. With or without the jocks, with or without the weak, strong, dumb, smart and so on. The overall Experience for the rest of us might change a little bit if any group was to be removed but mostly because of the realization that ethnic cleansings are back in fashion.

If one would want to speak for all humans, he has to speak for *all* humans. Even the ones he doesn't like all that much.
This Sentence above is something we can all agree on ethically.
To even think that every single Specimen of my Species has the same rights as i myself do is something unique to humans. Just about 10000 years ago, we cared about our Family and maybe secondarily about the Families that shared the same Cave.

That is where we came from; we'll have to deal with that and we are doing just that amazingly well. We are doing so well infact, that out environment can not keep up.

It takes quite a lot of Brainpower to realize that not only your Environment is somehow changing but that every Environment that we may ever know of is in Danger. We constantly see life settling in ridiculously hostile places, so we as a species needed some time to grasp the fact that we actually can screw up every environment we know.

So don't be so hard on us humans. We're learning. We may not be learning fast enough but we're doing the best we can.

 

[Slycne]

I sure hope everyone voting No and the OP are willing to go first, otherwise you're just bloody soap-boxing hypocrits.

 

[Knusper]

Who would do the culling? Our pets?

Perhaps in the far future governments might secretly introduce a virus that kills off the elderly in order to reduce the population, but to actively cull is cruel

 

[Phlakes]

I'm tellin' you, glass Africa with all our nukes, and use it as a lens for a giant laser death ray controlled from a secret volcano lair shaped like a top hat.

That solves more than a few of our problems.