Re: PLANET OF THE APES
We are already heading down the over population road, no way to avoid it. It isn't the living to 100 part, it is the need for people to breed endlessly. People are pumping out kid after kid, with little knowledge or care on how it will affect the future. People are also having more kids as they get older. Lets not even get into that 57 year old woman having twins, its ridiculous. <br /> We keep having three or four kids each, they have kids, their kids have kids, etc. If we want to address overpopulation, then stop breeding. One or two kids per family is fine, but there is no way our religious society will allow limitations on how many welps can be pushed out, so we need to suck it up. <br /> I tell you what, all the people whining over stem cell research and all the other attempts at medical advancement would change their tune if they gave birth to a child that would benefit from that technology. Who would not want a cure or organ transplant that would actually work for their child? Or maybe you can just pray and then say its Gods will when you are at your 6 year old childs funeral. <br /> The technology isn't just about prolonging life, that is a small part of it. It is about finding solutions to the many medical problem we face. Maybe it is true that we are fighting natural selection, and for every advancement we acheive there is a new disease to kick us back down.<br /> As far as being priveledged to live in a country that has been influenced by religion, that is my point. This country was first founded on the basis of getting away from that, and it seems as though we are coming full circle. More and more, our country is being shaped, influenced, whatever, by religion. It is already happening politically, Science is being scorned and put on a back burner by religion. <br /> Religion needs to be put back in the place that it should be: A belief and way of life for those who choose to live that life, not a basis to influence the direction of an entire society politialy, scientifically, and morally. You want to believe in God, go for it, but do not jeapordize the health and potential cure of an ailment my child may have for your belief. Keep the damn religion in the church where it belongs.
