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Post by Solar on Feb 19, 2005 5:22:06 GMT -5
Hey, if you live eternally, why not immediatly punish with death? An example: Police: Hey! You parked your car on the wrong side of the road! Civilian: Oh, I'll move it! Police: Nope! You're under arrest! Take him to the execution center! Civilian; NOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo ooooooooooo...Would be bad... Not living eternally... And much safer place to live! And if there is a car accident, everyone in the neighbourhood gets killed! Bye bye to large populations! And if we bomb China...
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Post by LordTerrible on Feb 19, 2005 9:47:40 GMT -5
There's another problem. The fact that people could stay healthy for so long means that they would be capable of reproducing hundreds of times in their lifespan. Not everyone would, obviously, but some people could just carry on going for the sake of it. These mothers who love children so much that they've got to have as many as they can would be passing on the "gotta have kids" gene and god knows what else. Population growth would explode, to say the least. T'would be downright silly to virtually eliminate death and not ration the births. Of course having children was 100% governed by the state
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Post by The Kaiser on Feb 19, 2005 10:05:43 GMT -5
Rationing births however, would lead to an outcry from the human rights groups. It would cause a great stir in democratic countries and would probably never be implemented, unless the limit was a high number.
Which shows why only dictatorships work... we don't have to worry about all that wishy washy stuff like "the people don't agree"
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Post by Amaunator on Feb 19, 2005 12:20:49 GMT -5
the problem with democracy is that even the stupid arsehole countryboys that know nuts about life also get a shot at 'determing what's good for them'. But they don't know a thing and pick the wrong people, they don't look beyond their own little farms and protest only to get the prices of grain higher.
I have a consideration on all of this though. Probably, those pills or treatment in general will cost a lot, so many third-world countries won't be able to buy it. If they'd only apply it to people in Europe then the rest of the world would have an outcry, but could they do something about it? No!
It's very selfish to think that way, but in this day and age the world is already overpopulated. If the ones that had education and the right state of mind live long enough, then the social standard shall grow and people will have more time to devote themselves to their jobs on the one hand and their personal lives at the other.
I agree that the government should make rules on birth and sentencing. The executions might not be very humane, but some people really aren't capable of living peacefully among a society that doesn't want robbery and murder. People who kill deserve to die, people who maim deserve to be maimed, people who molest ... You get the picture.
A thousand years of time should give people enough consideration to think about the consequences of your actions!
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Post by The Kaiser on Feb 19, 2005 12:47:27 GMT -5
People who kill deserve to die, people who maim deserve to be maimed, people who molest ... You get the picture. Ah, but how many murderers would perform out their twisted desires by becoming executioners? Never to be sentenced or punished for the crime of murder?
And how many rapists would become the legal equivalent so that they might escape the law, unlike those that commit the same offence?
Tell someone murder is wrong by murdering those that do, can send out confusing messages to the very young.
Though maybe we should just hang the bastards! ;D
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Post by Amaunator on Feb 19, 2005 13:10:40 GMT -5
Well, if we can make pills to stop degeneration ... then maybe we can do the exact opposite too to kill the ones that need execution. ;D
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Post by LordTerrible on Feb 19, 2005 13:21:58 GMT -5
It is obvious that we cannot achieve this utopia without first getting rid of this silly "democracy". Read Frank Herbert? Remember 'Leto's Peace'? Nobody liked that either.. because the people are so sillyyyyyy...
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Post by Solar on Feb 20, 2005 9:17:38 GMT -5
Make me the leader! I'll get rid of those foolish democrats, and begin a whole new empire, which will rival all other countries in the world!
We need a leader! And I WILL BE IT!
Mwuahahahahaaa! ;D
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