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Originally Posted by Nodrog
Even without the humanitarian/rights issues, a war would be a terrible way to deal with overpopulation since most of the people who died would be of working age.
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Indeed. Quite a few things written after WW1 note the effects on Britain and France (and presumably Germany) of taking hundreds of thousands of a nations healthiest, fittest young adult men and then slaughtering them pointlessly.
If we're endulging in fascist fantasies and abandoning morality completely then wouldn't eugenics be a lot easier and safer than starting a war which could potentially kill everyone in the world if nukes were used?
I mean in the UK there's 2.8m on disability living allowance, a few more million over 75, another 80k in prison. Quite a few million people voted in that Pop Idol thing, so they can be included. I'm sure we can get hold of the mailing list for the various boy/girl band groups to be added in. May as well solve religious strife in one go and kill all Muslims, Hindus, Jews, etc. Kids who play music loudly on the bus. The 1/3rd of the population who are overweight. Oh, and anyone who does annoying accents and thinks they're hilarious.
Once we've loaded those lot into the ovens I'm pretty sure we'd be alright.