watchmen - saving humanity

By now, I expect that you all have watched The Watchmen. If not, stop wasting your time. Leave now.

Also, if you can't handle tongue-in-cheek, adult discussion, stop reading, get of the internet.

The question raised is; what are you prepared to do - to save all of us from ourselves?

Many authors put forth that mankind is it's own worst enemy. We are destructive, flawed. Where are the would-be saviors? why aren't more "solutions" coming forward? Oh, right .. we're also apathetic.

We dodge real solutions because of their immediate cost, without regard to indirect return. This applies to life choices, business decisions as well as the world environmental and economic situation.

Let's run a hypothetical here. If we could fix the rampant environmental "Global Weirding", save the coral and retain biodiversity, prevent the sea level rise, etc. etc. But to do so, we had to immediately sacrifice six million people... Who would make that choice? it's only 0.001% of our population.

And what if it were by volunteer efforts. Would enough step forward? There are about a million suicides a year, it might work.

Then instead of all that, we say, lets get a handle on the population for the sake of the planet. Limit each human to beget one child - thus, each couple two. How would we *begin* to enforce this globally?

Better to continue to war with other humans as an organic population check.

And, which hypothetical suggestion do you think might raise the most outrage?


Post Scriptum. why are men so obsessed with penises - blue or otherwise?