Re: Medicine is useless

"George Conklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Herman Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Drol Yag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Better let more people die, especially old ones, saves money and there
> > >will be no overpopulation !
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> > The effect on overpopulation will be quite small.
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> > Most of the world's overpopulation comes from places
> > where medical care is poor, and to the extent
> > medicine contributes to it, it does so by reducing
> > maternal and childhood, especially infant, deaths.
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>   Herman, the only way the birth rate comes down is when infant mortality
> rate drops radically and people decide they don't need replacement
children.
> You get a lower birth rate by reducing infant mortality.

In underdeveloped countries you get a lower birth rate when property rights
are respected.  Until then, only a person's children are a reliable source
of future wealth.