And still, our right-wing politics (in France) still think euthanasia shouldn't be allowed.
Screw this world if you want, but at least let me die before you kill us all.
Crises that humanity now faces
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#12Is shoehorning Trump in everything the new Rickrolling?
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#13But not a word about the elephant in the room: overpopulation.
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#14But not a word about the elephant in the room: overpopulation.
Wasn't that the panic of an earlier decade?
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#15And still, our right-wing politics (in France) still think euthanasia shouldn't be allowed. Screw this world if you want, but at least let me die before you kill us all.
You can jump from a cliff if you're tired from this world, but don't ask doctors to do it for you.
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#17After decades of hearing that the sky is falling for these and other reasons, and realizing that it never does, I've come to the conclusion that the people who push this sort of fear need to be challenged. Humanity will muddle through, we always do.
I wasn't expecting the political tilt of this article. But perhaps many crises are avoided because we start doing something to prevent them. For example the ozone hole. Or the fear of mass terrorism after 9/11.
Mass terrorism was never a real fear, nor was a similar 9/11 style hijacking. In fact, 9/11 style hijackings were so easy to stop, they literally didn't remain effective for even 4 hours. (One of the planes was downed during the attack as it unfolded, because word of the attack had spread and it was that easy to stop. Had passengers not downed it, the military was en route to intercept.)
About the only meaningful and smart thing we did post-9/11 was make airplane cockpit doors stronger and have a better lock.
The rest? We should've just ignored it and gone on with our lives. Terrorism is meant to cause death to nations by auto-immune over-response, and the 9/11 attack was designed by CIA trained operatives to do exactly that.
The PATRIOT Act may as well have been a concession note to bin Laden.
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#18Oh I wonder what will be on here other than climate change, bio-engineered plagues, and... oh, it's just a left wing fluff piece.
you mean caring about the planet and democracy is left wing now? wow
5 out of the 13 "impossible crises humanity will face" is people getting power because they were or might become democratically elected. What are you talking about?
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#19And still, our right-wing politics (in France) still think euthanasia shouldn't be allowed. Screw this world if you want, but at least let me die before you kill us all.
You can jump from a cliff if you're tired from this world, but don't ask doctors to do it for you.
Why?
Im honestly curious why you don't think that's a service the medical industry should provide. (In particular, to elderly or terminally-ill people.)
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#20And still, our right-wing politics (in France) still think euthanasia shouldn't be allowed. Screw this world if you want, but at least let me die before you kill us all.
You can jump from a cliff if you're tired from this world, but don't ask doctors to do it for you.
I don't ask doctors to do it for me, but I'd love my government to have enough humanity to allow me to die without pain.