🚀 go-pugleaf

Melissa wrote:
> 
> In article <36620f82.3305864@news1.newscene.com>,
>    not@here.org (guess away) wrote:
> [..]
> >>>Must be damn close to 100%, hunh, if the Catholic Church's messages
> >>>are to blame.
> >>
> >>Well Catholics aren't perfect either. Ever heard of the term "cafeteria
> >>Catholic"? Someone who picks & chooses what they'll follow. So they could be
> >>kept totally ignorant of modern birth control methods ( because the church
> >>tells them that ) and be having babies in, and out of wedlock, who the heck
> >>knows?
> >
> >Now you're just grasping at straws. :)
> >
> >The RCC isn't my religion of choice, but I don'r rhink it is the cause
> >for all things bad in the world.
> 
> I never said it was, *did* I?
> 
> >Overpopulation is the result of too
> >many people and not enough predation in the system. People like to
> >have sex, and the direct result of that unless you make birth control
> >or abortion mandatory is that the population is going to explode.
> 
> AND the RCC is against all meaningful forms of BC, aren't they?!
> ( if you think abstinence and rhythm are meaningful, we'll throw you in the
> same room with a hot member if the opposite sex, using just them, and see )
> 
> >I predict that in the next 20 years, China will stop being so polite
> >about its expansionist policies and will start the next major war,
> >perhaps the 'Big One' unless they start enforcing totalitarian
> >measures for population control.
> 
> They already have, or didn't you hear? Infanticide is common there on female
> newborns and the state has mandated no more than one child per couple or they
> get forced into an abortion. Both of which totally stink and are totalitarian
> as hell. I'd much rather see it done freely through education, propaganda, and
> freely available BC means.

That's how it started. But sadly, given the prevailing deeply-ingrained
cultural attitudes in China, totalitarian measures were required.
Interestingly, if China can successfully continue this for another 30 years,
they will be in possession of the best technologized society with the highest
ratio of resources to population, outside of that nasty little iodine
problem...

> 
> That's my opinion  - Melissa
> 
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