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None of our current crisis issues are particularly lethal, at least until you come up with a definition of sentient that would apply to the first two trimesters. Your suggestion to use "sentience" as a criteria to justify abortion is not catching on. In fact, I haven't seen anyone else suggest that...

Yes, the difference between Great Britain's Protestant and Catholic cultures would seem small compared to Britain's and the Middle East's. If there is an instinct to hate, oppress and kill the different, someone with a different religion will be more familiar than someone from another continent. The...

Here are some crisis issues that you omitted Mostly worthy issues. The drug wars in the big cities are due to the government in its wisdom trying to prevent the people from getting what they want. One just provides criminals with a chance to profit. Both parties are generating trouble with that one...

Logic dictates that most of the people presently coming illegally have no marketable skills and no desire to assimilate. People with marketable skills who desire to immigrate are probably more likely to want to do so legally, so as to maximize their potential once here. It's not hard to believe tha...

In most crises, there are only one or two major issues. The Revolution may have had noble privilege as well as colonial imperialism. The Civil War may have included a power struggle between the northern industrial robber barons and the big southern agricultural landowners. Would agriculture remain p...

Recent readings from this page reminded me of Malthus. In his 1798 book An Essay on the Principle of Population , Malthus observed that an increase in a nation's food production improved the well-being of the population, but the improvement was temporary because it led to population growth, which in...

That data can't be trusted. Numbeo freely admits that they manipulate their data, and also freely admits that they won't tell you how they do it. "Our methods are proprietary." Sure, ignore data when it doesn't match your imagination. Don't provide an alternate source. I've provided an alternate vi...

Let’s consider the so called collapse with the results of global warming. Most of the population lives on the seacoasts which are rising. Regions will become too hot. The cooler areas such as Canada or Siberia may have soil optimized for trees rather than crops. Land will have to be fertilized. Oil ...

Germany (where I was born) is practically bankrupt and wracked by incredibly levels violent migrant crime. Germany's future is bleak. Spain and France are not much better off. France routinely loses control of its streets to African and Arab criminals. I don't see any prosperity in Europe anywhere....

“Our Earth is degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book and the end of the world is evidently approaching” From an Assyrian Tablet circa 2800 ...