Re: Medicine is useless

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herman Rubin) wrote:

> 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.

Lowering the birth rate to deal with overpopulation
is very uneconomical.  The population then ages, so you
have more older people depending on fewer young people.
It's better to increase the death rate.  We should stop
suppressing SARS and influenza.  This policy will primarily
impact the elderly, with less suffering than other diseases.
Natural selection is better than human selection, for
obvious reasons.  

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