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Lydia Leftcoast

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22. Yes, but the educated women aren't as easy to boss around,

Reply to 4th law of robotics (Reply #21)

Thu Apr 26, 2012, 04:50 PM

Apr 2012

they've spent part of every day away from home, they've mingled with people outside their families, they've learned something about the larger world, and they can support one another in their efforts to resist traditional roles.

A few months ago, I saw a video on the Guardian website about how a group of schoolgirls in an African village had supported one another in their refusal to undergo genital mutilation. Would this have happened if they had all been illiterate, unaware that the custom wasn't universal, and home all day doing chores?

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Expert warns world needs to move ‘rapidly’ toward ‘population shrinkage’ [View all] Playinghardball Apr 2012 OP

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I think in the back of the disturbed leaders is another event. There will be a few die offs from jwirr Apr 2012 #9

Everyone in favor of population shrinkage, take the first step NightWatcher Apr 2012 #2

Evolution in reverse, all the people with common sense kill themselves n/t Taitertots Apr 2012 #4

That's YOUR morals. I say, let's start with the top down. saras Apr 2012 #5

+1 x 10E10,000 lol!!! Zalatix Apr 2012 #16

It is getting obvious that exponential population growth will create unacceptable problems Taitertots Apr 2012 #3

I've done my part, and my family as well tech3149 Apr 2012 #6

And families like the Duggars are glorified tabbycat31 Apr 2012 #7

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Tax deductions for you, Trillo Apr 2012 #10

Easier said than done 4th law of robotics Apr 2012 #11

devils in the details Puzzledtraveller Apr 2012 #12

The single best predictor of a nation's population growth is the Lydia Leftcoast Apr 2012 #19

I suspect that's more of a correlating factor, rather than a causative 4th law of robotics Apr 2012 #21

Yes, but the educated women aren't as easy to boss around, Lydia Leftcoast Apr 2012 #22

Neo-Malthusianism? nt siligut Apr 2012 #13

Pretty much, and the working class is the group that'll get culled Zalatix Apr 2012 #17

Ehrlich has been wrong for forty years. Ikonoklast Apr 2012 #14

The last crisis. Are we really so collectively stupid, or deluded that we Egalitarian Thug Apr 2012 #15

ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!...nt Evasporque Apr 2012 #18

I keep coming back to the conclusion that we need to accelerate space development. backscatter712 Apr 2012 #20