MUST remember this next time someone starts prating to me about overpopulation:
On the issue of overpopulation and starvation, I know an equally viable and more profitable way to bring that to a close. The world governments can set a mandatory death date of 60.5 years. On that day, the government agency will euthanize you for no charge in the presence of all your loved ones. Think of all the money we would save on medical care for you. Then after your loved ones leave, we will send your corpse to a rendering plant where it will be turned into a savory paste.
Actually, this used to be accomplished naturally, before the anti-smoking push and the advances in medicine and palliative care. Smokers would pay into society’s coffers all through their working years, and then perish of cancer right as they approached their retirement years, never to draw a penny of their pension. But now fewer people smoke, and those that do live longer if they get sick. So perhaps a more expedient solution — dare I say a modest solution — to “overpopulation” is to subsidize cigarettes and ration health care for chronic illnesses. (That seems to be Russia’s plan, anyway.)
Just think — quitting those anti-smoking ads would free up additional funds for other public health projects, like persecuting the obese. This plan would also help to address the problem of urban sprawl, as it would make it more profitable to farm tobacco instead of selling the land to developers.
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OT but this reminds me, there was the other day a really disgusting column on the website for the newspaper of my youth (NY Daily News) suggesting that New Yorkers do their own health a favor and send their cigarettes to someone who “deserves” them — Joel Steinberg who was recently released from prison after serving more than a decade for the child abuse death of his illegally adopted daughter. This is the same paper (website) which ran a poll suggesting “End it all” as a possible best option for Steinberg’s future, and IIRC, that got the most votes.
My husband is the Catholic blogger (mine’s just about knitting) but being a sleepy mommy myself (our son is seven weeks old) I happened to click on your site. This overpopulation entry is the funniest thing I’ve seen for a while. I’m sure that I’ll be needing to haul out the anti-overpopulation arguments a few years from now.
Thanks for a laugh during my few minutes of free time.