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Buckeye_Democrat

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4. It's for killing people and animals. Some people use it for target sports.
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 04:43 PM
Aug 2016

If you notice, it's cities with high population densities that are more likely to want gun control.

People in rural areas don't experience the problems as frequently, so they're less likely to see the problem.

There's naturally less "freedom" when population grows.

http://billmoyers.com/content/isaac-asimov-on-his-faith-in-the-power-of-human-reason/

MOYERS: What do you see happening to the idea of dignity to the human species if this population growth continues at its present rate?

ASIMOV: 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 to 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.



Self-centered IDIOTS!!!

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