Basic question, why are people compelled to procreate? The world is already over-populated and we are unable to get resources to those who need them. A drastic population reduction would, in my opinion, help out humanity in so many ways. I am not talking about wiping anyone out, or sterilizing the stupid, or anything like that.
My solution is adoption. All of the people that want a child, should just adopt instead of having one of their own. It would be great for the child who is parent-less and it would decrease the population. So, why don't more people do it?
Also, guys. If you don't want kids get a vasectomy and stop risking having a child every time a condom rips. They can surgically take the sperm out and artificially inseminate, post-vasectomy (if it is done properly) there is no reason to have babies "naturally" anymore.

People aren't compelled to procreate so much as it is instinctual. It's human nature to want to pass on one's gene pool, just like all animals instinctually mate to continue their "line." Yeah, sure you can choose to not do so, but to ask why more people don't is simple animal nature.

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Originally posted by OrangestO This isn't about physics, this is about waves.

This reminds me of the movie "Rampage" where a guy becomes so disconnected from reality buys a bunch of armor, automatic weapons, bombs, and goes through his small town shooting it up. He also bombs the police department, robs a bank, and kills his best friend. His agenda was to reduce the amount of people on Earth for the same reason this thread mentions. With lots of "youtube" type cut-ins lots of references to over population.

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Originally posted by gmilf All of the people that want a child, should just adopt instead of having one of their own. It would be great for the child who is parent-less and it would decrease the population. So, why don't more people do it?

Gays are working hard at doing as you wish, sir.

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Originally posted by srussell0018 People aren't compelled to procreate so much as it is instinctual. It's human nature to want to pass on one's gene pool, just like all animals instinctually mate to continue their "line." Yeah, sure you can choose to not do so, but to ask why more people don't is simple animal nature.

this. Its an instinct, and if you're going to say that we should overcome our instinct, you might as well just make yourself a new religion. We're animals, we wanna have children, we want out children with our own dna-- trying to overcome instinct and be aim for an ideal has always led to horrendous acts (religion as I said above is entirely founded on trying to be 'better than our instincts')

death/war etc is the only way that the overpopulation will be 'solved', although the overpopulation we're experiencing now was essentially caused by what happens AFTER wars, and economic downturns etc, so that's not really a long-term solution anyway

also, if you check statistics etc, every first world country's population is plumetting, developing countries have drastically increasing populations which will turn into/already are big problems, but its a false generalisation to say everywhere is overpopulated. Australia (for example) is empty

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Originally posted by Zyklon_Jay because my cock gets hard and it needs somewhere to go.

nice...

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Because we are animals?

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Originally posted by DJRYAN™ nice...

i know, it will be even better when it will be human.

Only solution that has worked to get people to stop pumping out kids so far has been to make them wealthier and better educated. So, get on that one I guess.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Only solution that has worked to get people to stop pumping out kids so far has been to make them wealthier and better educated. So, get on that one I guess.

haha that's actually 100% accurate too! So much for evolution
Our race will turn into a bunch of inbred retarded crack-whores in 100 years

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