Tons to go over here.
Productivity has historically been a very minimal basis for human law.
Productivity is the basis for all law, human and non-human. To a point, the more humans we have, the more productive we are and that's why original human and non human life did not kill each other. Not because a book or a yet to be seen man in the sky told them to.
And K is correct, that in most western civilizations, have based their moral laws on biblical laws and principles.
And where did the bible get those from? Don't say "God", because no one can prove that he exists but we can prove that humans and non humans lived successfully before the bible and before the ten commandments based on the law of safety and productivity.
How can you possibly claim most of the earth is uninhabitable and humans only live there out of necessity? The most remote, harsh environments on earth where humans live have been inhabited for thousands of years.
Cheers to places like Africa where they can't grow any vegetation, can't get clean drinking water and rely on the rest of the world to provide for them. It means people can't live there without the aid of others.
His point was that 6 billion people could have a quarter acre each and all fit in an area less than the US territory. When put in context of the entire size of inhabitable land in the world, the entire world population could multiply exponentially, and still have plenty of room for all the space and infrastructure you could need.
There's more to human life that just space. The world will run out of resources and we already are, a clear sign of over population.
Further, I believe this earth was designed for human life by God and will accomplish exactly its purpose. We will never run out of space before God is done with this planet.
And this is the belief that delays technological advancements.
"It's all good, God will save us!"
"God" doesn't save us from sickness, from poverty or from War, yet you expect his all mighty ass to do something when a meteor is about to hit our planet?
Also, stop trying to use productivity as the basis for murder being wrong. Murdering someone means that you take their life, and therefore they breathe no more. This action also hurts loved ones of the victim, and in turn starts war.
There is two sides to this stone. Killing a homeless man who just leaches off social programs, no problem. Killing a farmer who provides food for hundreds, that's counter productive. The counter productive are not "loved" and are shunned from society.
Also, there are food shortages in the world here and there. We have plenty of food here in America but it is sometimes hard to get it to famined regions due to war and corrupt governments.(North Korea)
So North Korea stops the US from sending food to Africa? What about the millions living in poverty in the United States? Is North Korea stopping that too?
No, I don't want to live in a world of just houses, but don't think for one second that all of the possible habitable places in the world are already occupied by people. My calculations are just an example to paint a picture; and that is that we still, even with our current population, have plenty of room to accomodate everyone.
But we don't have the resources, the education, the infrastructure or the basic skills to do so. In a perfect world, sure, but this world is not and never will be perfect. Millions don't have access to clean drinking water, and you think we aren't over populated?
You and Ohio seem to be living in a fantasy world where everything is perfect and God will save us if things go wrong. I don't know how you can guys can trust something you have never seen but while you guys are doing that, I will try to improve the earth's productivity.