Are you trying to "win"?

With all of your respective ideologies flying around, I've had to ask myself if you're actually trying to "win". Do you have an understanding that we are one human race of people? Is competition really needed when we, as humans, have escaped such things as animalistic instnict with logic and justice?

Do you have ethics or morals that are absolute, or do they only apply to you and yours? I'm not talking about "Let's be one World"- I am merely questioning whether you all feel more fulfilled by treating others negatively for whatever reason or if you'd rather help everyone and anyone you can.

It's not a directive, but a question.

Aum Shantih Shantih Shantih

>>11
 yes, believe it or not, someone needs to harvest the grain, someone needs to mine the ore, melt the ore, shape the metal, bend the metal into machines etc. if you kill off half the population you may end up in situation where you do not have the necessary people to do this.

post-black-plague there was alot of resources available because alot of people died, that's right, but there was also alot of people needed to make use of those resources, so people had babies, and tons of them, everybody having more and more babies, untill a status quo was reached, and you can see the opposite effect today, where developed coutnries are having a birth rate which does not sustain the population.

and as #12 said, "smaller economy + economy of scale effect = lower efficiency = lower standard of living." of course there is a risk of overpopulation, but there is also no reason to have a unneccesary small population, since this will simply result lack of efficiency.