BRIDGES TO A SUSTAINABLE POPULATION

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I SEE WHERE AN ESTIMABLE ENTREPRENEUR HAS REACHED A DECISION TO SHARE HIS CONSIDERABLE FORTUNE WITH OTHERS OF LESS FINANCIAL ACUMEN BY GIVING THE DISPOSABLE AMOUNT TO ANOTHER ESTIMABLE ENTREPRENEUR, WITH AN EVEN GREATER FORTUNE, SO THAT TOGETHER THEY MAY ESCALATE THE PROBLEM OF AN EXISTING POPULATION OF HUMANS, PRESENTLY STRESSING THE FINITE RESOURCES OF A PLANET INCAPABLE OF PROTECTING ITSELF OR PROVIDING, ON A SUSTAINABLE BASIS, THE BASIC NECESSITIES FOR WHAT THE AUTHOR PERCEIVES AS PROBABLY LESS THAN HALF OF THE PRESENT POPULATION.

ONE THEREFORE SUPPOSES THAT THE ABILITY TO AQUIRE GREAT WEALTH IS NOT A CONCOMITANT OF KNOWING WHAT TO DO WITH IT AFTER IT HAS BEEN ACQUIRED. IN REALITY, ONE MUST DEDUCE THAT THESE ESTIMABLE INDIVIDUALS DO NOT POSSESS THE FORSIGHT TO ANTICIPATE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTIONS, AS NUMEROUS INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS AND GOVERNMENTS HAVE DEMONSTRATED THE SAME INABILITY IN THE PAST. WOULD THAT MARGARET SANGER HAD THESE RESOURCES TO IMPLEMENT HER PERCEPTIONS IN THE PAST CENTURY RATHER THAN THE SURVIVAL OF THE SPECIES BEING DEPENDENT ON THE EUGENICS OF THE MONSTERS OF THE WORLD, PAST AND PRESENT, AND ON THE INEVITABLE NATURAL DISASTERS.

MUCHO ADO HAS BEEN MADE REGARDING THE SAVING OF LIVES, SUPPOSEDLY NUMBERING IN THE MILLIONS, BY APPLYING SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AS WELL AS SUPPLYING MEDICAL SERVICES TO MILLIONS OF UNFORTUNATE SOULS WHO WERE BORN INTO FAMILIES AND SOCIETIES WHO HAD NOT THE ABILITY TO PROVIDE FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS, NOR THE WILL TO PREVENT THEIR EXISTENCE, AS WILL BE IMPERATIVE IN THE FUTURE, IF THE BALANCE BETWEEN RESOURCES AND SURVIVAL OF THE SPECIES IS TO BE RESTORED.

THE AUTHOR HAS SUGGESTED THE ONE HUMANE OPTION FOR POPULATION CONTROL ESPOUSED TO DATE. GIVEN THAT IT WILL REQUIRE AN UNGENCY NOT SEEN IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY AND SEVERAL GENERATIONS TO IMPLEMENT THIS OPTION, WHEN THE WORLD PERCEIVES THAT URGENCY, IT SEEMS REASONABLE TO POSE THE QUESTION, WHAT STEPS MIGHT DELAY THE INEVITABLE, UNTIL THOSE LEFT WITH THE ABILITY TO IMPLEMENT SUCH AN OPTION ARE FORCED TO DO SO, IF THEY WISH THEIR PROGENY TO SURVIVE.

THE PRESERVATION OF LIVES BY THROWING MONEY AT THE SYMPTOMS IS AN UNFORTUNATE OCCURANCE ON THE ROAD TO THE SURVIVAL OF THE HUMAN SPECIES, "IF" THAT IS THE ROAD OF REASON CIVILIZATION WISHES TO PURSUE. HOWEVER, THE AUTHOR IS NOT PERSUADED THAT REASON WILL PREVAIL IN A WORLD THAT HAS DEMONSTRATED, THROUGHOUT ITS HISTORY, THAT REASON HAS SELDOM BEEN THE DETERMINING FACTOR IN THE ACTIONS OF MEN AND THEIR CREATIONS OF GOVERNMENT, RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS. THIS IS PAINFULLY OBVIOUS, REGARDLESS OF THE ESPOUSED INTENT.

A SECONDARY DARWINIAN PERCEPCION EXISTS, IF THE SURVIVAL OF THE SPECIES IS HELD TO BE DESIRABLE, AND THAT IS THE REALITY THAT THOSE INDIVIDUALS INCAPABLE OF EKING OUT AN EXISTANCE INDEPENDENTLY, SHOULD THEREFORE BE PERMITTED EXPERIENCE THE NATURAL CONSECUENCES OF THEIR FATE, WHICH IS TO PERISH. THE HUMANE INTENTIONS OF THOSE SCURRYING TO INTERVENE IN THE COURSE OF NATURAL CONSEQUENCES, LESSENS THE PROBABLILITY THAT HUMANS, OF ANY CALCULABLE VALUE, WILL SURVIVE. THE TRAGEDY THAT SHEER NUMBERS OF MARAUDING HUMANS CAN DESTROY THE LESSER NUMBERS OF INDIVIDUALS CAPABLE OF SUSTAINING THEMSELVES AND BUILDING ON THE ACCUMULATED KNOWLEDGE OF PRECEDING CIVILIZATIONS IS EVIDENT. THE ABILITY TO DESTROY IS FAR EASIER TO ACQUIRE AND USE, THAN IS THE ABILITY TO CONSTRUCT AND IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE, AS IS SEEN THROUGHOUT HISTORY, EVEN TO THE PRESENT DAY EXAMPLES OF TERRORISM RAMPANT THROUGHOUT COUNTRIES ON EVERY CONTINENT OF THE WORLD.

THAT 19 HUMANS (IN THE BIOLOGICAL SENSE, IF NOT THE EVOLVED DEFINITION), USING PRIMATIVE TECHNIQUES, CAN DESTROY 3000 LIVES IN HUGE BUILDINGS REQUIRING MILLIONS OF HOURS OF LABOR AND A HIGH LEVEL OF TECHNOLOGICAL SOPHISTICATION TO CONSTRUCT, TO SAY NOTHING OF THE ECONOMIC INVESTMENT INVOLVED, IN A MATTER OF HOURS, IF NOT MINUTES, IS ONLY THE LATEST EMBODIMENT OF THIS REALITY. THE DESTRUCTION OF ENTIRE CITIES IN A MATTER OF SECONDS, AS WAS EXPERIENCIED IN WORLD WAR II, IS AN EVEN MORE HORRIFYING EXAMPLE OF THE ABILITY TO DESTROY WHAT TOOK YEARS (CENTURIES?) TO CONSTRUCT.

THE HIDDEN, TO SOME EXTENT, DESTRUCTION OF VARIOUS SEGMENTS OF NATIVE POPULATIONS ON THE CONTINENTS OF EUROPE, ASIA AND AFRICA BY ROGUE GOVERNMENTS AND RELIGIONS, USING LESS EFFICIENT, AND THEREFORE LESS OBVIOUS, MEANS, IS AN ONGOING EXAMPLE OF THE POWER TO DESTROY OVERWHELMING ANY PREDISPOSITION TO IMPROVE THE LOT OF THE HUMAN SPECIES. IRONICALLY, IT HAS SERVED WHAT MIGHT BE CONSIDERED THE GREATER GOOD OF SPECIES SURVIVAL.

WHEN WELL MEANING INDIVIDUALS, GROUPS AND AGENCIES OF GOVERNMENT RUSH TO INHIBIT THE LESSENING OF UNSUSTAINABLE POPULATIONS, THEY INADVERTENTLY SAVE MILLIONS SO THAT TENS OF MILLIONS CAN PERISH IN THE FUTURE. THOSE WHO SUGGEST THAT INTERVENTION IS A DESIRABLE COURSE OF ACTION FAIL TO SEE THE CONSEQUENCES AWAITING IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE.

THE ONLY LEGITIMATE BASIS FOR INTERVENTION IN ALIEN NATIONS IS TO ASSURE THAT ROGUE COUNTRIES DO NOT POSSESS THE MEANS TO DESTROY CIVILIZATION. UPON ASSURING, THAT FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE, SUCH A COUNTRY DOES NOT, AND WILL NOT SOON, POSSESS SUCH CAPABILITIES, A PRUDENT WITHDRAWAL OF THE SEARCH AND DESTROY MISSION IS THE ONLY REASONABLE RECOURSE. A POPULATION OCCUPIED IN SEARCHING FOR BASIC NEEDS, SUCH AS FOOD, WATER, SHELTER AND ENERGY WILL NOT EASILY BE ENTICED INTO, OR CAPABLE OF, ACTS OF AGGRESSION AGAINST OTHERS AND THE LEADERS WHO PRECIPITATED SUCH CONDITIONS WILL LIKELY NOT LANGUISH IN THE RELATIVE SECURITY OF INTERNATIONAL PRISONS WHERE THE BASICS OF LIFE, IF NOT A MORE LUXURIOUS EXISTENCE THAN THE GENERAL POPULATION EXPERIENCES, SUSTAINS THEM UNTO A NATURAL DEATH, WHILE THE CHARADES OF "JUSTICE" PLAY OUT.

DESPENSING WITH THE FOLLY OF ASSISTING PSEUDO SOCIETIES (NATIONS?) AND THOSE WHO WISH TO SELF-DESTRUCT AND ALLOWING THE NATURAL SELECTION PROCRESS TO OPERATE IN A MORE OR LESS NORMAL WAY, LEAVES OPEN THE QUESTION OF DEALING WITH THOSE LIVING INDEPENDENTLY, OR AT LEAST WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR DOING SO, AND A PORTION OF THE POPULATION ALREADY BEING REARED WITHOUT REGARD TO THAT END. OBVIOUSLY, THE POTENTIAL FOR CATASTROPHIC NATURAL CONTROLS SERVES AS A NON-BIASED LIMITATION ON POPULATION.

STILL, THE HUMAN AND SPIRITUAL INCLINATION TO SEEK AND GIVE AID CANNOT BE ABRIDGED WITHOUT UNDERMINING THE BASIC TENENTS OF ANY POPULATION WORTHY OF BEING DEEMED CIVILIZED. HOW THEN, DOES THE REMAINING POPULATION ENCOUNTER THE COMPETING GOALS OF LIVING HUMANELY AND SURVIVING. IT IS SUGGESTED THAT EVEN SOLOMON MIGHT FIND THIS MORE DIFFICULT THAN HIS PREVIOUS CONUNDRUM. OBVIOUSLY, THE SAVING OF ONE LIFE WILL LEAD TO THE SACRIFICE OF ANOTHER. PERHAPS, IT IS WELL TO CONSIDER THE CULPABILITY OF THOSE INVOLVED BEFORE DECIDING WHAT REMEDIAL ACTION TO TAKE.

SOME CATASTROPHIC EVENTS GIVE NO WARNING AND OCCUR DESPITE THE BEST EFFORTS OF HUMANS TO AVOID THEM. THE RECENT GEOLOGICALLY SPEAKING) SUNAMI, VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS AND VARIOUS EARTHQUAKES, AS WELL AS TORNADOS, ARE WELL KNOW FOR THEIR CAPRICIOUS DESTRUCTION. HURRICANES AND FLOODS, ALTHOUGH POWERFUL AND DESTRUCTIVE, DO GIVE ADVANCE NOTICE TO THOSE WISE ENOUGH TO TAKE EVASIVE ACTION. IF NATURAL CONSEQUENCES PREVAIL, THOSE WHO WISH TO CHALLENGE THE ODDS, BY CONSTRUCTING THEIR "CASTLES" UPON THE SAND, MAY FIND THEIR DECISIONS UNINTENTIONALLY AID AND ABET THE SURVIVAL OF THE HUMAN SPECIES. THEREFORE, SELF-SELECTION WOULD SEEM TO BE A SECONDARY UNBIASED PROCESS FOR CONTROLLING THE POPULATION.

LIKEWISE, THE TWIN MISFORTUNES OF DROUGHT AND FAMINE, WHICH SEEM TO FALL HARDEST ON THOSE WHO DO NOT HAVE THE FORESIGHT OF JOSEPH, NOR THE WILLINGNESS, TO PREPARE FOR THEM, MAY BE CONSIDERED AMONG THOSE "NATURAL CONSEQUENCES" WHICH OUGHT NOT TO BE ALTERED BY SHORT SIGHTED INTERVENTION. OBVIOUSLY, THOSE WHO FAIL TO LIMIT PROCREATION, LAY BARREN THE LAND TO EROSION AND POLLUTE THE WATER ARE MOST CERTAINLY A PART OF THE PROBLEM, NOT THE SOLUTION.

THIS LEAVES ONLY DISEASE, AN INDISCRIMINATE CONTROLLER OF POPULATION, TO BE DEALT WITH ON A BIASED BASIS, E.G. WHO SHOULD LIVE AND WHO WILL PERISH. FORTUNATELY, SCIENCE HAS IDENTIFIED A NUMBER OF PRECURSORS TO DISEASE, ALTHOUGH SOME REMAIN TO BE ELUCIDATED. THOSE WHO CHOOSE A PRUDENT LIFESTYLE CERTAINLY MERIT SOME CONSIDERATION FOR THEIR WISDOM, WHILE THOSE WHO PERSIST IN DESTRUCTIVE LIFESTYLES, PROBABLY DO NOT. THAT IS TO SAY THAT THE ALLOCATION OF LIMITED RESOURCES, BE THEY FINANCIAL, TEMPORAL OR PHYSICAL, MIGHT BE MORE WISELY USED TO HELP THOSE WHO HAVE NOT KNOWINGLY PURSUED A LIFESTYLE WITH BEHAVIOR LEADING TO THEIR PARTICULAR ILLNESS AND DEMISE. (THIS IS SUGGESTED TO BE JUST ANOTHER FORM OF SELF-SELECTION.)

OBVIOUSLY, THE QUICKEST WAY TO ELIMINATE SUCH BEHAVIOR IS TO PERMIT THE INDIVIDUALS SO INVOLVED TO EXPERIENCE THE NATURAL CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR DECISIONS. TO USE LIMITED THIRD PARTY RESOURCES (TIME, MONEY AND ENERGY) SAVING PEOPLE FROM THEMSELVES, FOR AN INDEFINITE PERIOD OF TIME AT BEST, ONLY COMPOUNDS THE PROBLEM. THOSE WITH SEXUAL PROCLIVITIES OF DUBIOUS WISDOM; THOSE WITH DESIRES TO ENGAGE IN MIND AND BODY ALTERING EXPERIENCES BY SUBJECTING THEIR BODIES, REGARDLESS OF THE METHOD CHOSEN OR THE SUBSTANCE ABUSED (ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, HARD DRUGS, PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, AND JUNK FOOD, COME TO MIND); THOSE WHO ENGAGE IN HIGH RISK ACTIVITES (UNNECESARY FOR ORDINARY AND PRUDENT LIVING) SHOULD NOT BE ENTITLED TO ASSISTANCE FROM OTHERS IN RESPONSE TO THEIR UNWISE DECISIONS. OBVIOUSLY PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY IS PERMISSIBLE, BUT THE AUTHOR IS CONSTANTLY AMAZED AT THE "PRESUMPTION OF ENTITLEMENTS" THESE INDIVIDUALS SEEM TO HAVE IN EXPECTING OTHERS TO SACRIFICE THEIR TIME, MONEY AND ENERGY TO MAKE UP FOR STUPID BEHAVIOR.

WHAT IS WORSE IS THE SYSTEM OF LEGAL REQUIRMENTS AND CASTIGATIONS (AT LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY) REQUIRING SUCH BEHAVIOR. OF COURSE, THE LAWMAKERS AND LEGAL VULTURES NEVER COUCH THEIR GREED FOR POWER AND MONEY IN SUCH TERMS. IT IS ALWAYS "SPUN" AS PROTECTING THE "VICTIM". ONE LONGS IN VAIN FOR THE COMMON SENSE ONE ENCOUNTERS IN OTHER COUNTRIES AND WHICH USED TO BE THE NORM IN THIS COUNTRY IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT PAST E.G. WHEN ONE FALLS IN A HOLE, SOCIETY DOES NOT LOOK FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO BLAME, MUCH LESS WAYS TO PROFIT FROM SUCH MISFORTUNE, BUT DOES SUGGEST THAT THE INDIVIDUAL NEEDS TO BE MORE CAREFUL IN THE FUTURE. OF COURSE, THE INDIVIDUAL SHOULD BE FREE TO PROCEED TO THE NEAREST DOCTOR OR HOSPITAL, PROVIDED HE (OR SHE) IS ABLE AND WILLING TO PAY FOR THE REQUESTED SERVICES. THE MANDATING OF MEDICAL SERVICES INDISCRIMINATELY AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHERS IS AN ANATHMA TO THE SURVIVAL OF THE SPECIES.

ONE OF THE SEVEREST PROBLEMS FACING THIS COUNTRY, IF NOT ALL COUNTRIES, HAS TO DO WITH THE PROVISION OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES TO THE GENERAL POPULATION WITH EVER INCREASING NEEDS AND EVER DWINDLING REOURCES. ADHERING TO THE IDEA THAT ONLY THOSE CAPABLE OF LEADING AN INDEPENDENT LIFE OUGHT TO BE ACCORDED THAT OPPORTUNITY, ONE RETURNS TO THE PROCREATION PROCESS. GIVEN THAT NATURE, IF NOT INTERFERED WITH, HAS A RIGID SELECTION PROCESS WHICH ALLOWS FOR THE SELECTION OF VIABLE INDIVIDUALS TO A GREAT EXTENT, MANY OF THOSE ALIVE TODAY WOULD NOT EXIST IF THIS PROCESS HAD NOT BEEN PERVERTED WITH "SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES", WHICH CAN BE USED WISELY OR UNWISELY, AND WOULD LESSEN TO A GREAT EXTENT, THE NEED TO "DECIDE" (BY FALLIBLE INDIVIDUALS OR COMMITTEES) WHETHER THE PROBABLITY OF ANY GIVEN INFANT LIVING AN INDEPENDENT LIFE JUSTIFIES HIS (OR HER) CONTINUED EXISTENCE. STILL, IF HUMANS ARE TO SURVIVE AS A SPECIES, THESE DECISIONS WILL NEED TO BE MADE.

IT WOULD BE REASONABLE TO SUPPOSE THAT "GUIDELINES" COULD BE CREATED TO PROVIDE SOME RATIONALE FOR THESE DECISIONS AS TO HOW LIMITED RESOURCES WILL BE ALLOCATED AND TO WHOM. THE CARE OF ONLY A FEW INFANTS, NEEDING INTENSIVE CARE FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIVES, WITHIN JUST ONE CITY, PROBABLY USURPS THE RESOURCES NEEDED TO PROVIDE AN ENTIRE STATE WITH FREE INOCULATIONS AGAINST THE MOST COMMON PREVENTABLE DISEASES FOR ALL. IT IS A QUESTION TO BE FACED BY ALL IN THE NEAR FUTURE.

SHOULD THE INDIVIDUAL PARENTS OF THESE UNFORTUNATE CHILDREN CARE TO PROVIDE THE TIME, MONEY AND ENERGY TO CARE FOR THEM, THEN, LIKE THOSE INDIVIDUALS SUFFERING THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR SELF DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR, ONE SUPPOSES THAT THE ASSUMPTION OF INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY REQUIRES SOCIETY TO DEFER WHILE THAT PROCESS PROCEEDS. SHOULD THE INFANT OUTLIVE THE GOOD WORKS, INTENSIONS AND RESOURCES OF THE PARENTS, THE AUTHOR PRESUPPOSES A GREATER TRAGEDY LOOMS.

AT THE OTHER END OF LIFE'S JOURNEY LIVE (IN THE LEGAL AND MEDICAL DEFINITION) A COUNTLESS NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS WHO WILL NEVER AGAIN "SMELL THE ROSES" OF AN INDEPENDENT LIFE AND ARE TOTALLY DEPENDENT ON THE "GOODNESS" OF OTHERS TO PREVENT A MERCIFUL END TO THEIR EXISTENCE. HAVING HAD "CLOSE ENCOUNTERS" WITH THIS FACET OF LIFE (AND DEATH), THE AUTHOR SUGGESTS THAT THIS "GOODNESS" EXISTS PRIMARILY BECAUSE IT IS QUITE LUCRATIVE AND PROVIDES AN EXORBITANT INCOME TO THESE SUPPOSEDLY "GOOD" INDIVIDUALS WHO PROVIDE SUCH SERVICES. SELDOM DO FAMILY MEMBERS, AT LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY, UNDERTAKE TO PROVIDE THE "TIME, MONEY AND ENERGY" NECESSARY TO POSTPONE THE INEVITABLE. INSTEAD, THERE EXISTS ANOTHER "ASSUMPTION OF ENTITLEMENT" TO THE RESOURCES OF AN ENORMOUS INFRASTRUCTURE, BASED UPON "THIRD PARTY" PAYERS. THAT THESE PROVIDERS OF "GOOD" STRIVE TO GUARD THEIR SOURCES OF INCOME TO THE LAST POSSIBLE BREATH, REGARDLESS OF THE "COSTS" TO THE COLLECTIVE RESOURCES OF THE WORLD, IS OBVIOUS TO ANYONE WHO CARES TO SEE.

THE AUTHOR HAS NO DESIRE TO ENUMERATE THE DISASTEROUS ENCOUNTERS SUFFERED BY THE PRINCIPALS TRAPPED IN THIS NETHER WORLD BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH, NOR TO DOCUMENT THE ANXIETY OF MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILIES, BUT DOES FORESEE THE TIME (PRESENTLY ESTIMATED AT 2015 IN THIS COUNTRY) WHEN THE ECONOMICS WILL NOT SUPPORT SUCH FOLLY. WITHOUT DOUBT, IT IS ECONOMICS THAT WILL PRECIPITATE DECISIONS WITH RESPECT TO WHO LIVES AND WHO DIES AND HOW.

AS WITH THE DECISIONS REGARDING INFANTS, SHOULD FAMILY MEMBERS BE WILLING AND ABLE TO ASSUME THE RESPONSIBILITY OF CARING FOR THOSE UNFORTUNATE INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE A HARD TIME DYING, IT IS SUGGESTED THAT SOCIETY MIGHT RESPECT THE DEVOTION OF THESE INDIVIDUALS, WHILE BEING MINDFUL THAT OTHERS IN SOCIETY DO NOT HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PROVIDING SUCH CARE.

GEOPOLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS STRIFE (WAR IN ITS VARIOUS MANIFESTATIONS) OBVIOUSLY IS A TREMENDOUS FACTOR IN CONTROLLING POPULATION AND ENSURING THE SURVIVAL OF THE SPECIES, BUT ONE DOUBTS THE WISDOM OF SURVIVAL UNDER SUCH IRRATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND THOSE WHO PERPETUATE IT. IN FACT, THE AUTHOR PERCEIVES UNBRIDLED PROCREATION TO BE AN ELEMENT IN SUCH STRIFE. TO BE SURE, THERE ARE IDEOLOGICAL EXCUSES WHY ONE GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS BELIEVES THAT ANOTHER GROUP SHOULD BE ANNIHILATED. HOWEVER, A REASONABLE, WELL ORGANIZED, WELL EDUCATED, WELL FED AND STABLE SOCIETY WOULD HAVE LITTLE INCENTIVE TO RISK ALL, SIMPLY BECAUSE ANOTHER SOCIETY IN SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES, CHOOSES TO LIVE IN A DIFFERENT MANNER.

WARS DO NOT GENERALLY ORIGINATE IN COUNTRIES WITH STABLE POPULATIONS ENJOYING THE "GOOD THINGS" IN LIFE, NOR ARE PEOPLE IN THESE CONDITIONS EASILY PERSUADED TO "RISK ALL" SO THAT THE MALCONTENTENTS AMONG THEM CAN ASCEND TO UNLIMITED WEALTH AND POWER OVER THEM AT THEIR EXPENSE. FEW FIGHTERS FOR CHANGE, FORMERLY CALLED REVOLUTIONARIES AND NOW CALLED TERRORISTS, SET OUT FROM COMFORTABLE LIVES TO FOLLOW THE TEACHINGS OF INSANE, WOULD BE DICTATORS, TO ENGAGE IN THE MUTUALLY DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR CALLED WAR, BUT THAT IS ANOTHER TOPIC.

SO WHERE ARE THE MURKY DECISIONS LEFT AFTER ONE DEALS WITH THE BEGINNING OF LIFE, THE ENDING OF LIFE AND, THE VAGARIES OF MISFORTUNE, NOT WITHIN THE PERVIEW OF HUMANS? IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THESE "GRAY AREAS" (REHTORICALLY REFERED TO AS "SLIPPERY SLOPES", WILL ALWAYS EXIST. IT IS THE NATURE OF LIFE (AND DEATH) THAT THERE ARE SOME SITUATIONS THAT DO NOT YIELD TO REASON OR ABSOLUTES. STILL, THE AUTHOR FINDS IT ABSURD THAT HUMANS, THROUGH THEIR INSTITUTIONS, ARE UNWILLING (UNABLE?) TO TAKE THE NECESSARY BEHAVIOR TO CONTROL POPULATION "ON A REASONABLE BASIS", WHERE THAT EXISTS, RATHER THAN FOCUSING ON THE "SYMPTOMS" AS EXEMPLIFIED BY THE WELL MEANING, BUT MISGUIDED, AFOREMENTIONED BILLIONAIRES.

THE AUTHOR LIKENS THIS BEHAVIOR TO A ONCE FAMOUS CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION, THAT ACTUALLY SUCCEEDED IN THEIR GOAL OF ERADICATING A HORRIBLE DISEASE. WHEN SUDDENLY FACED WITH THEIR OWN DEMISE, THEIR ENTERPRISING SOLUTION WAS TO FIND A "SYMPTOM" THAT COULD NEVER BE CONQUERED AND THERBY ENSURE THEIR CONTINUED LUXURIOUS EXISTENCE ON THE BACKS OF NUMEROUS CONTRIBUTORS WHO FAILED TO PERCEIVE THE CONSEQUENCES OF SUCH A QUEST. VAMOS A VER.

REMEMBER, THOSE WHO PERSIST IN "JOUSTING WITH SYMPTOMS" ONLY ENSURE THAT THE "PROBLEM" OF OVER POPULATION WILL NOT BE DEALT WITH IN A REASONABLE AND TIMELY MANNER. WHEN THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT (CARBON FOOTPRINT?) OF ONE INDIVIDUAL VANISHES, OR IS PRECLUDED, THE POTENTIALLY DEADLY SYMPTOM(S) ARE GREATLY DIMINISHED AT THE SAME TIME. WITHOUT THE NEEDS OF AN EXCESSIVE POPULATION FOR AIR, WATER, ENERGY, FOOD, AND A MYRIAD OF OTHER LIFE SUSTAINING PRODUCTS, ALL TO BE TAKEN FROM THE DECREASING RESOURCES OF OUR PLANET, THOSE LEFT MIGHT ENCOUNTER A MILLENIA OF PEACE AND PROSPERITY TO WHICH ALL SEEM TO ASPIRE. SUCH CONDITIONS EXISTED WITHIN THE LIFETIME OF THE AUTHOR, BUT WERE SQUANDERED IN TRIVIAL PURSUITS IN HIS HUMBLE OPINION. WHETHER SUCH CONDITIONS WILL EVER EXIST AGAIN, IS DEPENDENT TOTALLY ON DECISIONS TAKEN TO CONTROL PROCREATION AND REDUCE THE PRESENT POPULATION. OF COURSE, THE PRESENT COLLECTIVE THINKING OF THE WORLD LEADERS, LIKE THE AFOREMENTIONED CHARITY, IS ONLY CONCERNED WITH THEIR PRE-EMINENCE, NOT WITH THE SURVIVAL OF THE SPECIES.

ENJOY, T.O.M.