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- From: dencisco@eos.arc.nasa.gov (David Paul Encisco)
- Subject: Re: The overpopulation problem. NOT!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.221826.11834@eos.arc.nasa.gov>
- Organization: NASA Ames Research Center
- References: <3920@master.CNA.TEK.COM> <Nov18.190826.60351@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <1992Nov18.123756.1@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu> <Bxz4GK.JxL@inews.Intel.COM> <1992Nov20.122731.1@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:18:26 GMT
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- cvakgaaq@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu writes:
-
- >> The first 50 people to get in a 50-person lifeboat have a perfect right
- >> to tell the 51st "Sorry, next one".
- >>> Austin Moseley
-
- > Situational ethics consist of introducing a contradiction then asking
- >the challenged to resolve the unresolvable. It's illogical.
-
- Situational ethics...never heard of that branch. It's not "illogical" as
- you say, but rather a logical impossibility. Secondly, since you've
- called it "situational ethics" we're talking about a morally right
- and morally wrong argument. But the example is a conceptual argument
- and the conclusions are speculative. Any "wise" Ethics instructor
- would reject this type of reasoning.
-
- Now human carry capacity of let's say Madagascar is a far better
- example. A comparison would be fallacious as well, although it does
- provide for a reasonable warning and a slightly more apropos conclusion.
- Environmental immigration is another interesting aspect of population
- dispersion. I think we may be showing some early signs of that now in the
- S.F. Bay Area.
-
- >If 4 billion people can exist at subsistence conditions in
- >collectivist countries, then perhaps 30 billion could be comfortable in
- >Capitalist, free nations in their place.
-
- Perhaps, or maybe in an capitalistic corporate oligarchy like...
- never the less, 30 billion people will need to make a living. Got
- any ideas?
-
- And I haven't heard much from you Austin, welcome back!
-
-