Gamecat All American 17913 Posts user info edit post |
from some of you anyway (most of you probably know who you are)...
What do you consider to be the largest problems facing humanity right now?
That's not to be read as the biggest problems facing America, Industrialized Nations, or any other sample of humans. I mean the biggest problems facing humanity.
If you're having trouble, think of it this way: If you were suddenly in charge of everything everywhere in the world, show me your prioritized list of the issues you'd address first.
[Edited on January 29, 2006 at 3:11 AM. Reason : ...] 1/29/2006 3:03:27 AM |
aaronburro Sup, B 52840 Posts user info edit post |
two girls at the same time 1/29/2006 3:10:59 AM |
Gamecat All American 17913 Posts user info edit post |
You really shouldn't have to be in charge of the world to make that happen. 1/29/2006 3:12:13 AM |
aaronburro Sup, B 52840 Posts user info edit post |
for some people, its the only way. i might be one of those people 1/29/2006 3:13:57 AM |
Gamecat All American 17913 Posts user info edit post |
Serious replies plz.
I'll post this in Chit Chat or the Lounge if you'd like to continue this discussion. 1/29/2006 3:24:28 AM |
drunknloaded Suspended 147487 Posts user info edit post |
hunger
hunger
hunger
hunger
hunger
hunger 1/29/2006 3:45:15 AM |
UniversalDes All American 800 Posts user info edit post |
Normally, I'd say hunger would be the biggest one, however, given the events with Iran the nuclear issue has me a bit on edge. 1/29/2006 3:46:52 AM |
Protostar All American 3495 Posts user info edit post |
Socialism and religious extremism (of all religions including Christianity).
If I were in charge things I would do:
1)Outlaw organized religion (if anyone can think of any better way to crush the religious zealotry, have at it) 2)Abolish all social welfare programs 3)Do away with all regulations of businesses 4)Do away with all nuclear weapons 5)Do away with all regulations of drugs (everything would be legal:marijuana, LCD, heroin, cocaine, etc.) 6)Implement a flat tax of 5% on people's incomes to pay for basic government functions.
These are my top priorities. 1/29/2006 3:52:24 AM |
Josh8315 Suspended 26780 Posts user info edit post |
CINDY SHEEEHAN!!!!!!!!!!! 1/29/2006 3:53:21 AM |
Gamecat All American 17913 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "UniversalDes: Normally, I'd say hunger would be the biggest one, however, given the events with Iran the nuclear issue has me a bit on edge." |
So, do you mean that the existence of nuclear weapons is one of the largest problems facing humanity right now?
I'm not baiting for an argument, btw. Just trying to clarify.
Also, please list others if you feel there are other issues of similar importance that should be addressed.1/29/2006 3:55:27 AM |
EhSteve All American 7240 Posts user info edit post |
sheer stupidity 1/29/2006 4:11:15 AM |
quiet guy Suspended 3020 Posts user info edit post |
I'd free Natalie Holloway 1/29/2006 4:20:46 AM |
spöokyjon ℵ 18617 Posts user info edit post |
My primary concern is the decline in popularity of Pokemon.
Also, the fact that people are killing people, people are dying, and people lead shitty lives. I don't know that those things will ever change. 1/29/2006 5:59:26 AM |
TGD All American 8912 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Gamecat: What do you consider to be the largest problems facing humanity right now?" |
[liberals] 1/29/2006 9:29:16 AM |
cyrion All American 27139 Posts user info edit post |
if those are proto's top 5 priorities for saving humanity im a bit worried. theres a lot more wrong with the world than ppl not being able to smoke crack or paying taxes for welfare moms.
i agree with extremism in general, but there is no magical way to solve that
so heres my list of the problems (depending how you wanna look at it, choose 1 or 2): 1) humanity itself 2) what we have become
[Edited on January 29, 2006 at 9:35 AM. Reason : .] 1/29/2006 9:34:04 AM |
bigben1024 All American 7167 Posts user info edit post |
Gulags and sex slavery. Doing away with them, not creating more. 1/29/2006 10:02:37 AM |
Fermata All American 3771 Posts user info edit post |
Apathy. 1/29/2006 10:08:44 AM |
Lumex All American 3666 Posts user info edit post |
Corruption 1/29/2006 10:39:07 AM |
LoneSnark All American 12317 Posts user info edit post |
<Protostar> 1)Outlaw organized religion (if anyone can think of any better way to crush the religious zealotry, have at it) 2)Abolish all social welfare programs 3)Do away with all regulations of businesses 4)Do away with all nuclear weapons 5)Do away with all regulations of drugs (everything would be legal:marijuana, LCD, heroin, cocaine, etc.) 6)Implement a flat tax of 5% on people's incomes to pay for basic government functions. </Protostar> Try #1 and a lot of people will raise an army up against you. Everything else would be very do-able, all you would have to do is pass an amendment to the constitution stating "everything in this constitution shall be taken LITERALLY" The flat tax would be harder, but unnecessary. As government spending collapsed (nothing constitutional to spend it on) they would lower taxes enough to make it no longer matter whether it was flat or progressive. 1/29/2006 10:43:54 AM |
Mindstorm All American 15858 Posts user info edit post |
1. Hunger 2. Dictatorships (Or countries that do not allow people to be free, at least as we knew it in the US before 9/11.) 3. Extremism 4. Political Ambition 5. Red tape 1/29/2006 11:14:15 AM |
Lumex All American 3666 Posts user info edit post |
Haha, no one cares about the environment 1/29/2006 11:22:06 AM |
marko Tom Joad 72816 Posts user info edit post |
where are the flying cars? 1/29/2006 11:34:01 AM |
Prawn Star All American 7643 Posts user info edit post |
religious extremism
too many radical Christians, Jews and Muslims are in power right now. That shit could just blow up. 1/29/2006 11:46:54 AM |
Mindstorm All American 15858 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Haha, no one cares about the environment" |
True.1/29/2006 11:52:16 AM |
MrT All American 1336 Posts user info edit post |
too many people 1/29/2006 12:08:56 PM |
Shaggy All American 17820 Posts user info edit post |
Politics. 1/29/2006 12:28:11 PM |
GrumpyGOP yovo yovo bonsoir 18156 Posts user info edit post |
Most serious threats:
1) Autocracy/despotism/dictatorship. Virtually every famine and not-so-virtually every genocide in recent years can be attributed directly to these factors. 2) Ethnic/religious hatred. They fuel modern autocracy and all of its evils, and are responsible for many if not most current global conflicts. The way to solve this is not to try to abolish the differences between people. It is to educate, and shoot anyone who doesn't respond well to education. More or less. 3) Oversized nuclear arsenals. I don't think you can leave the only thing capable of completely anihilating humanity off the list of things that threaten it. 4) AIDS. Not disease in general, just that one. It won't wipe out mankind, but it may well wipe out huge chunks of it.
[Edited on January 29, 2006 at 12:34 PM. Reason : ] 1/29/2006 12:34:05 PM |
Woodfoot All American 60354 Posts user info edit post |
it being too cold for me to drive my jeep
and
my motorcycle not working 1/29/2006 12:46:37 PM |
LoneSnark All American 12317 Posts user info edit post |
^^ With the exception of number 3 and the jist of number 4 (make it disease in general, not just AIDS) then all elements of your list are universal to every century. 1/29/2006 12:57:56 PM |
quiet guy Suspended 3020 Posts user info edit post |
After disease, I guess we should get rid of overpopulation 1/29/2006 1:06:25 PM |
Lumex All American 3666 Posts user info edit post |
Thats twice lonesnark has commented on other people's posts without posting his own views 1/29/2006 1:13:34 PM |
cyrion All American 27139 Posts user info edit post |
i dont see a problem with that. 1/29/2006 1:39:38 PM |
LoneSnark All American 12317 Posts user info edit post |
Appologies, I guess I should have said "You stole my list! You Bastard!" instead, I merely pointed out the differences between my list and their list. 1/29/2006 1:43:14 PM |
Supplanter supple anteater 21831 Posts user info edit post |
mutation of avion flu creating bird zombies 1/29/2006 1:44:33 PM |
GrumpyGOP yovo yovo bonsoir 18156 Posts user info edit post |
Overpopulation is not a problem in the world today. Population distribution, maybe, but not numbers overall.
Quote : | "make it disease in general, not just AIDS" |
There is no other disease that holds a candle to AIDS in terms of the threat it poses. If you expect me to put the goddamn avian flu (which I notice still isn't killing everybody like some of you promised) on the same level as the scourge that's killing half the population or more in some countries, you've got another thing coming.1/29/2006 3:02:27 PM |
spöokyjon ℵ 18617 Posts user info edit post |
[Edited on January 29, 2006 at 3:05 PM. Reason : asdf]
1/29/2006 3:04:46 PM |
nutsmackr All American 46641 Posts user info edit post |
poverty 1/29/2006 3:10:19 PM |
spöokyjon ℵ 18617 Posts user info edit post |
You can stop AIDS or you can stop hunger, but you can't stop both. 1/29/2006 3:14:42 PM |
LoneSnark All American 12317 Posts user info edit post |
Malaria has killed more people than AIDS. Sure, AIDS is on a fast-growing upward trend, but so is malaria as DDT use has been eliminated and the economic situation in some African countries gets even worse. 1/29/2006 3:17:07 PM |
nutsmackr All American 46641 Posts user info edit post |
DDT needs to be fucking never used again. 1/29/2006 3:23:18 PM |
Jere Suspended 4838 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "3)Do away with all regulations of businesses 4)Do away with all nuclear weapons" |
What if the businesses want to build nukes?1/29/2006 3:27:59 PM |
GrumpyGOP yovo yovo bonsoir 18156 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Malaria has killed more people than AIDS." |
1) Is that in recent years, or aggregate? 2) The big wave of AIDS deaths may well not have started yet. 3) Malaria is regional. AIDS goes wherever there are people.1/29/2006 3:51:28 PM |
PinkandBlack Suspended 10517 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Socialism and religious extremism (of all religions including Christianity)." |
he said problems facing humanity, not "things that i personally dont like". how the hell are things like this going to destroy humanity (well, save for a Islamic extremsit getting ahold of a nuke)
hunger would probably top my list, followed by disease1/29/2006 4:17:49 PM |
Prawn Star All American 7643 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "a Islamic extremsit getting ahold of a nuke" |
this is the biggest current threat to first-world nations that don't have to worry about hunger, etc.
ps Socialism leads to hunger and disease via the poverty and substandard health care systems.
[Edited on January 29, 2006 at 4:28 PM. Reason : 2]1/29/2006 4:26:08 PM |
DirtyGreek All American 29309 Posts user info edit post |
I'd say hunger, because it's easy to fix. There's enough grain being produced RIGHT NOW to feed everyone in the world 3500 calories a day. When you factor in other foods, there's enough food for everyone with plenty leftover. Ending misdirected food aid and such would make that easy to fix.
Completely ending the use of fossil fuels
end the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, period. we have more food than we need now, and without these, we'd have either enough or almost enough.
failing these, destroy all humans
[Edited on January 29, 2006 at 4:30 PM. Reason : m] 1/29/2006 4:27:37 PM |
PinkandBlack Suspended 10517 Posts user info edit post |
yeah, Sweden is a fucking garbage dump, what with their social welfare and free market.
that crap only happens when you have morons like Castro running the show.
id like to add that: corruption and/or mismanagement.
[Edited on January 29, 2006 at 4:29 PM. Reason : .] 1/29/2006 4:29:07 PM |
cyrion All American 27139 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "There is no other disease that holds a candle to AIDS in terms of the threat it poses. If you expect me to put the goddamn avian flu (which I notice still isn't killing everybody like some of you promised) on the same level as the scourge that's killing half the population or more in some countries, you've got another thing coming." |
it is still getting its wings, so to speak....bahahahahaha, but yeah, give it some time. i still have high hopes for da byrd flue.1/29/2006 4:32:59 PM |
BridgetSPK #1 Sir Purr Fan 31378 Posts user info edit post |
hunger disease apathy crappy music 1/29/2006 4:36:57 PM |
nutsmackr All American 46641 Posts user info edit post |
I like how people claim socialism leads to substandard healthcare.
nevermind the fact western Europe, Canada, and cuba has some of the best healthcare in the world.
Better than the US 1/29/2006 4:43:02 PM |
UberComedian All American 642 Posts user info edit post |
Stupidity and addiction.
True, many people bring it upon themselves, but these are problems intelligent design, natural selection, and social darwinism have yet to solve. Stupid social programs... 1/29/2006 4:48:51 PM |