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Originally Posted by danielf
Utter *******s. People die because they get ill (mostly due to poverty and mostly from completely preventable causes), not because there's too many of them in one particular continent.
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no no no... not because there happens to be too many on a continent, but too many of us altogether... I'm trying to explain why disease is so rife in the first place. because nature has devised ways of controlling populations and species. it's the way it is. the fittest and smartest of the species survive. the weak and stupid will die out. disease is one such way that the unfit are removed from the equation. the problem is, as a race we have devopled ways to counter act nature and prevent disease from doing what it was designed to do. the fact you even pointed out things are preventable simply supports the point I am making that we are not letting nature do what is meant to do - keep the balance.
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Originally Posted by danielf
Would you also agree that fewer people would try to come to these shores if life in their native country wasn't quite as bad as it is?
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yes I would agree with that.
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If you do, you might actually find yourself in favour of aid.
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whether I favour aid or not is irrelevent to the point I am making that as a species, we have evolved. if we did not dodge nature with our technological ways, such as aircraft, cars, ocean liners, then these people would not be able to make these journeys, and would therefore die, keeping the balance nature intended. as I said earlier, humans have put nature out by changing our environment to suit us. nature is therefore having issue with keeping up and will have to find new ways to keep us under control. the time will come, but it a meteorite, rising sea levels, drought, new diseases or whatever, we will have our numbers reduced in time. balance will be restored. as I said, nature is ruthlessly efficient and economical.
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for the record, I agree with
Mischievious' post of setting up an industry or infrastructure, then support them, but on the whole, let them get on with it. nature will do the rest.