Will we still be alive in 50 years?

[girlystyle]

i will. can’t say the same for everybody else

[sandwichcookie]

heh.Your posts remind me of all those hippies from the 1960s spouting the same thing and today they are the ones who mostly make up the elite that run everything.
I wonder if history will repeat itself.

nah, i don’t believe that… I have two theories:

The ones running shit now were the bitter, stuck-up squares who didn’t get invited to all the sexy, LSD-fueled free-love orgies,so they had to stay home do their homework and here we are…

Either that, or they were the children of those who were running shit, who in turn where the children of those who ran shit even before that… this is probably closer to the truth…

[Bob_Sagat]

The way I see it, the only responsible way to have kids is one and done. MAYBE a chance at a second kid once you’ve proven you didn’t screw up the first one. No more than two. When you and your mate die, you don’t want to leave behind more people than you started with.

Broads talking of 3+ kids like they’re planning a floral arrangement are paying absolutely no attention to how much even one kid taxes the world’s resources. It’s irresponsible.

And guess what, she comes from a family with three kids as well. It’s like baby-littering.

[Starhammer]

I refuse to have children. Although the technological aspects of the future look awesome, most of the decisions being made at a global scale lead me to believe that the future is going to be fucking ass. I’m not making somebody unwittingly suffer through it because I was careless with birth control.

N…Her…butt.

-Starhammer-

[Gigas_Breaker]

It probably won’t be that bad. These guys seem happy.

[Azure]

would you still support eugenics if you ended up in the “shitty genepool” category?

what about a global population control committee?

Let’s get this straight - I’m for sterilizing the race, pretty much, lol.

Seriously though, if I had to have my balls clipped to ensure that the future of humanity would be better for there being a better/less violent/greedy/defective gene pool, then sure, absolutely.

Hell, I’d snip them myself. (yes, rcadio)

I have no problem with it.

I am not so vain as to put my genes before humanity’s best interests.

How would a society go about “breeding out” undesirable traits? Noble ideas, good premise but the execution is shaky because the project is excessively massive in scale. What happens with the people that have “undesirable traits?” If they keep breeding, do you forcibly sterilize them to prevent their numbers from growing? Even trying to execute this plan would be a total nightmare. And depending on how you handle the “undesirable traits,” or you can say “undesirable people” since they are carrying those traits, it might lead right into authoritarianism and a God-complex/messiah complex.

Yeah.

I think that breeding, given our present population numbers, ought be viewed as a privilege, not a right.

And yes, if it comes to it, I think that forcible measures should be taken to prevent undesirable traits such as the aforementioned birth defects and disease, to sociopathy and psychosis, to CEO and Wall Street levels of greed, and thirst for power.

I never said it would be easy.

Only evolutionarily necessary, if we are to ever attain a peaceful, equitable existence.

[Ika_Zuchi_No_Kami]

Oh baby! I might die from hype when this shit gets a release date.

[media=youtube]Vdh4TqWFfX4[/media]

[Hatred_Edge]

Broads talking of 3+ kids like they’re planning a floral arrangement are paying absolutely no attention to how much even one kid taxes the world’s resources. It’s irresponsible.

I recall being at work and seeing a woman with four kids. People care too much about their own satisfaction. Not everyone, hell I doubt even most people, are breeding to safeguard the continuity of our “great” societies. They’re just breeding to feed to their own desires. A female at work tells me I HAVE to have at least one kid. I honestly told her “No, I don’t.” These people are reducing life itself to nothing more than some item in a shopping mall. They never cared what price anything costs because they always put themselves first. “I gotta get laid.” “Our relationship is stagnant so I had a kid to give him a push.” “I’m getting old.” “Mom and dad pressured me into having kids.” etc. They say you can’t put a price on happiness, well this price is pretty damn high if I say so myself.

It’s one of the reasons I’m not interested in having children. I don’t think I can be that selfish. And I’m very concerned about the future. People give off the vibe like it’s only them in their little pocket of the world. Nah, it was always all of us.

[thurst]

i got good genes, i’ll be around.

[Manx]

Oh baby! I might die from hype when this shit gets a release date.

*They got that perfect except for the robot lady kid at the end that says “Playstation.”

*and how all the games are the the same still. Except for Madden, 'cause it now has the intergalactic team rosters. And Street Fighter has degenerated into nothing but holographic Chun Li booty shots and Sakura upskirts.

[Shadow_Ace]

having worked in a nursing home for 5 years…I can honestly say I would want to leave the game around 73…solid

[SaikyoStyle]

Does it matter? Enjoy the time you have and don’t dwell on the inevitable.
Also
Hey hey, Hey hey, Smoke weed, Every day.

[Kromo]

People have always obsessed with death the end of the world.
Look at the pharaohs. Look at the bible and all its sequels.
Calling out the end is a way of making your generation look important, it gives it significance for being the last of its kind. Really, its all just a way to feel significant in a massive and otherwise uncaring universe.Also you can be a bitter, unproductive and condescending prick who can look down on others and say “I told you so” when bad things happen.
Saying the world is going to end is just a desperate attempt to stop it by admitting it. Its like when bullies call you a lisping faggot you finally go “yeth I’m a lithing faggot” in hopes they get bored of making fun of you…

Anyway. on topic: In 50 years. None of you will be alive.
One by one you will suffer before I return you to nothingness.
For I am a cruel God.

[Ben_Perkins]

Everybody’s dead, it’s just a matter of degree

-George Carlin

[South]

I am noticing a sort of apprehension towards the future. Everyone seems to have a negative vision of the future. Talking to people, it seems inevitable that some sort of catastrophe is gonna occur soon and drastically change society as we know it. Not one person I’ve spoken to had a positive outlook on the future(humanity’s, not their individual futures).

Now, I am a lazy nigga. If there’s a war or something, I’ll probably die quickly. So it’s in my best interests for shit to not go down. While it seems inevitable that something is gonna have to change, what with the ecological issues, the finite resources(how many years of petrol do we have left?), the development of even more lethal armaments and all the wars going on, what extent of change do you expect to see in the next 50 years? A complete makeover of the world structure, or slight changes?

My hope is that we might lose a bit of comfort(like only having 3 cereals to choose from), but nothing major will happen.

I wouldn’t mind the economic system getting a makeover though.

There’s more good hearts than bad. I feel like we’ve got a good shot if those people get a say.

[Negative-Zer0]

Chillan with my boy Kenshiro and hes like yea, your all already dead.

How long?

[goodm0urning]

I recall being at work and seeing a woman with four kids. People care too much about their own satisfaction. Not everyone, hell I doubt even most people, are breeding to safeguard the continuity of our “great” societies. They’re just breeding to feed to their own desires. A female at work tells me I HAVE to have at least one kid. I honestly told her “No, I don’t.” These people are reducing life itself to nothing more than some item in a shopping mall. They never cared what price anything costs because they always put themselves first. “I gotta get laid.” “Our relationship is stagnant so I had a kid to give him a push.” “I’m getting old.” “Mom and dad pressured me into having kids.” etc. They say you can’t put a price on happiness, well this price is pretty damn high if I say so myself.

Fixing up health and science education would be a big help. Todd Akin should be a wakeup call that our quality standards in our reproductive health programs are pretty inconsistent. That includes the incredibly deficient curricula that rely on abstinence-only education. (Hint: telling teenagers that sex is bad does not work.) There’s nothing wrong with getting laid, per se. In fact, it’s pretty kick-ass. The fact that it can be done without a significant risk of pregnancy should highlight the absurdity that many people forgo that option–essentially because they weren’t taught the real facts about it and don’t know about the long-term ramifications of the resulting poor decisions.

I’m willing to bet that most teenagers want to have sex. I’m willing to bet that most teenagers do not want to have babies. In fact, I’ll be generous and extend that generalization to the early 20s crowd, too. It’s not like we’re looking for a solution to this problem. We have a solution. It isn’t being implemented.

That goes for a lot of the problems that face our society, actually. We have many solutions, some theoretical and some that are practical right here and right now, but for whatever reason (usually moneyed interests maintaining their influence), those solutions get held back.

[Ika_Zuchi_No_Kami]

*They got that perfect except for the robot lady kid at the end that says “Playstation.”

*and how all the games are the the same still. Except for Madden, 'cause it now has the intergalactic team rosters. And Street Fighter has degenerated into nothing but holographic Chun Li booty shots and Sakura upskirts.

sheeit, niggas gonna be all over that EA Sports Virtual Brazzers… franchise mode:coffee:

[Starhammer]

would you still support eugenics if you ended up in the “shitty genepool” category?

Hey. You. C’mere. Look at me. You see this? Now close your eyes and look into the future. If you cannot tell that I should be there, then maybe it is your genes that should not continue.

-Starhammer-

[Core_Series]

That goes for a lot of the problems that face our society, actually. We have many solutions, some theoretical and some that are practical right here and right now, but for whatever reason (usually moneyed interests maintaining their influence), those solutions get held back.

That’s because the moment I get my hands on free energy, I’ll grow all of my own food hydroponically, clean my own water, stop paying bills, engineer a helicopter which can remain airborn forever, and build a laser blaster with infinite ammo. This. They don’t want. But I’m very close. Anybody want some Tesla patents? I got 'em.