The news and public concern has been directed towards violence for as long as I can remeber.��It is supposedly on a constant rise.��The funny thing is I never hear people talk about population increase as the possible source.�� It is well known in nature that when a species starts to outgrow or over stress it's environment that they will start demonstrating the same behaviors most call psychosis or sociopathy, in people.��In other words this behavior is viewed as abnormal.��Lemmings committing mass suicide, a certain species of frog practicing cannibalism on each other, most any animal attacking one of it's own for food resources, etc.�
Another factor in this whole equation is just a play on statistics.��If you allow a certain predisposition to violent behavior in the population, the more population you have the more this predisposition will occur.��What I am getting at is:��all this moral rationalizing is uneccessairy and to ask, why do these people who run around moaning about why oh why this is happening not consider that.� �Instead most people actively support the propagation of our overly abundent species and bitch about the violence. It is not that I am totally unsympathetic towards those who have experienced a loss attributable to violence, but that this pathetic posturing of victim should be dropped.�
Going off on a slight tangent here, I would like to talk about the environment.��With the continous increase in population, people are pushing out other species.� �I am not trying to say we need to save the earth, because it will go on and probably re-generate life without us, but that it is against our own interest to do this without the current variety of flora and fauna.�� The more people there are, the more space we need, the more space we need the less space their is for plants and animals.� �If that continues, then we will effectively have more people to feed and less and less to feed them with.��Now, to return to the previous discussion, violence seen from the standpoint of environment, is not neccessairly a bad thing(though I am a bit reluctant to publically admit that it is straight out good).�� The truth is, if someone, I know, is fucked with, I probably would want revenge, but would hopefully not go around whining about what a tragedy it is and how everyone should mourn.
The thing that gets me most about all this are the
moans of people about the social ills(with politics you get into
something else *plug*comming soon to this page--the reason why
american politics and economy suck IMHO--*plug*)of this society
(which gets into why do these people have kids when they know
those kids will have to be exposed and raised in it--a better
solution would be just to not have those kids and therefore not
have to expect the rest of us to change just because they felt
the need to add to the problem they are going to bitch about),
I have to get a bit irate and annoyed and question why does this
have to be such a right and wrong thing and not somewhere in the
shades of gray.
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