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[In response to this question by Bill Moyers: What do you see happening to the idea of dignity to human species if this population growth continues at its present rate?] "It's going to destroy it all. I use what I call my bathroom metaphor. If two people live in an apartment, and there are two bathrooms, then both have what I call freedom of the bathroom, go to the bathroom any time you want, and stay as long as you want to for whatever you need. And this to my way is ideal. And everyone believes in the freedom of the bathroom. It should be right there in the Constitution. But if you have 20 people in the apartment and two bathrooms, no matter how much every person believes in freedom of the bathroom, there is no such thing. You have to set up, you have to set up times for each person, you have to bang at the door, aren't you through yet, and so on. And in the same way, democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people onto the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies."

--Isaac Asimov

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Anonymous #1 said:
When things get so shitty, and america turns into a nazi nation, and people will have 70% tax rates, will it be far fetched to think that people will just commit suicide on an epedemic level beacause there's no value in living life anymore?

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Anonymous #6 said:
If 98% of the members of this forum killed themselves the world would be a better place so yea, it could/should happen.

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Anonymous #7 said:
A good friend of a friend hanged himself less than a week ago. Two people asleep in his front room,he went off the bannister,only to be found not long after

I tripped with the guy two weeks ago. Everyone's in pieces over it. So sad,why couldn't he have just talked to someone.

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