Dieoff Selection - Your Chance to Choose

Jack · Dark Lord Joined: Aug 11, 2004 Posts: 4972

Let us suppose there will be a dieoff. For the sake of discussion, the dieoff will reduce global population to 1.5 billion people, and stabilize at that number. Population reduction will occur through famine and disease, and will not involve wars or weapons of mass destruction. The period of population reduction will proceed over 40 years.

The goal is to choose who dies. For one glittering instant, the universe permits you - you personally, as you sit reading this message - to choose a general algorithm for who dies. It can be anything you specify.

How's that for power?

Yes, I recognize not everyone agrees with the assumptions; please feel free to argue for your preferred set of initial conditions. However, for the purpose of selecting who gets to participate in the dieoff, please use my stated conditions so we have an equivalent starting point.

Keep in mind that the closer the dying are to you, in location or characteristics, the better the chance that you get to become one of them.

So - if you choose random, you have about an 80% chance of being part of the dieoff. Therefore, choose wisely.

By the way...keep in mind that policy makers around the world will wind up making this very decision at some point. Treat it as a joke if you wish - but someone, somewhere, is making decisions and preparing plans for such things. Given the speed of developments, some serious thought might be in order.

Welcome to the post-peak world....

Cool

_________________
Dieoff. Fun to watch. Better with hot buttered popcorn! new_popcornsmiley

Ludi

Dang, I meant to choose "random" and I accidently pushed "everybody"

oh well! Shocked

_________________
"...powerdown so soft and fluffy you'll think you're living in a pillow..." - jboogy

dinopello

DomusAlbion

You're dead Ludi. Laughing

I chose the poor as this will allow most of the death to occur in areas remote to my locale and thereby insulate my family some.

This will also allow me to admonish my grandchildren at the dinner table to

"Eat all your portion. There are children starving to death in (fill in the latest poor nation/continent)."
_________________
"Modern Agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food."
-- Albert Bartlett

"It will be a dark time. But for those who survive, I suspect it will be rather exciting."
-- James Lovelock

Ludi

Ludi

Pops

Crap, Jack, I spent 10 minutes composing this kneejerk reactionary post in the witchdoctor thread: hold still, would ya?!

Ferretlover

SchroedingersCat · Intermediate Crude Joined: May 26, 2005 Posts: 519

I picked 'Other.' I was looking for a 'Useless Eaters' choice.
_________________
Civilization is a personal choice.

auscanman

I chose religious parameters... Since religious fundamentalists of all stripes are among the most ignorant individuals, tend to overbreed, and exacerbate most of the problems the world faces I'd rather they die than anyone else.

Kylon · Expert Joined: Aug 12, 2005 Posts: 803

I would select the people who are not technologically inclined, people who are reactionary, and luddites, and people who believe in flash over substance(politicians, salesmen, lawyers, ect...). This would also include superficial bimbos such as Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian(I LOATHE THEM).

Also, people who are warmongers, you know the kind of dickhead you says "lets invade their country to get OUR oil!". Also the kind of luddite who says "No Nuclear" and doesn't like it because they don't understand it and it hurts their head.

People who have no ethics and are willing to kill anyone or sell anyone out to get ahead(although greed and ambition are good, so long as people get money by creating resources or wealth).

Most of the people in the world with IQs lower than 95.

All the manwhores in the world, who go around hurting women and spreading disease. All the nymphomanic skanks, who manipulate men in order to get them to pay all their bills, while cheating on them in order to get pregnant to a man they really want to be with(but the man doesn't have the cash or the will to take care of her).

All the people who are dying of a sexually transmitted disease that they themselves inflicted upon themselves via irresponsible behavior(but not AIDs orphans).

roccman

I choose old people.

Old = 55
_________________
"There must be a bogeyman; there always is, and it cannot be something as esoteric as "resource depletion." You can't go to war with that." Emersonbiggins

"... hope is a rotten-thighed whore" Niko Kazantzakis

We are going back to roccland - me

Jack · Dark Lord Joined: Aug 11, 2004 Posts: 4972

TITAN

Often, say when I'm driving in traffic, or I get a telemarketing call I say; 'god I wish everyone other than my favorite 100 people would die!'

So that would be my choice... Nothing personal ;)
_________________
“You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.” George W. Bush

Lumpy