Should we stop using war as population culling of our young people? For most of our Godless history, governments and religions have used war to reduce the population of their unruly men and women. This is understandable for those times, as tribes, governments and religions would have wanted to reduce the overrepresented male numbers, as compared to much fewer female numbers. Population balance, unfortunately, was required. Ancient tough love from the Gods. Modern wars seem to be designed to continue that vile policy. Should we ask our political and oligarchic masters to stop wasting our young people with ancient ways? If we are not to change our ways, cull the old. We are living too long, and the joys are fewer, as we watch the young be buried before the old. The opposite of what nature wants to see. Culling the old is the moral thing to do. Our ways of culling the young are not natural. Regards DL
the idea was to kill young men , leaving the young women to the elite men. worked well until total war began to kill many women as well. western society still reserves most desirable women for the affluent, but does so economically (through pay differential ) and serial divorces. as population control, we learn every deer season that killing bucks does little to reduce population.
With the birth rates for populations in many countries all over the world at ALL TIME LOWS we bettder STOP !!!!
The question is not whether to stop war from happening, I think most of us agree that's we want. The question is how?
disagree. the earth has far too many people. i'd rather cut population with low birth rate than the old stand bys of famine, pestilence, and war. who is that 4th horseman afain? oh yea, just "death."
There is nothing more dangerous for a country than war. If you are fighting one, the last thing you do is prioritize personal moral preferences over fighting ability and efficacy. and in the realm of fighting ability and efficacy, young men hitting their prime physically are best to fill the rank and file mixed in with older more experienced veterans and overall led by even older and more experienced leadership. That’s simply how it is, tested over countless battlefields over thousands of years.
Wars can end the very existence of nations. Well... unless, of course, it is the incompetent Russians you are facing.
As long as money exists war will exist... Op, how would you "cull the old" if it were left up to you?