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• Dan commented on the blog post What’s the best solution for reducing t …   1 year ago
  

  I don’t think there is a solution as such. Not an ethical one anyway. Anything that limits population growth by either restricting the ability of people to have children, or worse by ending the lives of people who are already alive is inherently unethical. The only real option for limiting the population on Earth would [...]

• Dan commented on the blog post Is medicine and defying the natural sele …   1 year ago
  

  It’s merely a different form of natural selection. Where once the survivors were the quickest and strongest now they are those with the best artificial protection from danger.
  That said, the people with access to the best medicines etc. are going to be those with the most money and whilst money is in a way hereditary, [...]

• Dan commented on the blog post John Hewett asked…   1 year ago
  

  “Perhaps the next political step would be a technology based political engine, that uses an algorithm to make decisions, based on a consensus entered by the populus.”
  I don’t think too many people would be happy about being governed by a machine, no matter how fair or reflective of their views it is. For a start, [...]

• Dan commented on the blog post John Hewett asked…   1 year ago
  

  So what would be the alternative then?
  Given points 1, 3, and 4 in the previous answer; that most people are too ill-informed to truly understand the issues, that very often it will be hard to get any kind of consensus of opinion and that the majority isn’t always right, not to mention the practical considerations [...]

• Dan commented on the blog post John Hewett asked…   1 year ago
  

  “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.” – Winston Churchill

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