Overpopulation, should old people be culled?

Question

Overpopulation, should old people be culled?

Answer 1

Young people should be castrated.

Answer 2

No they should not,If your lucky one day  you will be old.

Answer 3

Should stupid people be culled? Should mentally impaired people be impaired? Should the handicapped be culled?

Should all blue eyed people be culled?

The answer isn't in culling the present population, but educating for more responsible procreation. One child per couple, more effective birth control, more responsible birth control, MORE RESPONSIBILITY!

Answer 4

The only viable solution to this problem is to leave earth, colonize space and other planets. Yet to do so, we must defeat the problems we are facing with our degradation of society. Stop feeding the rich, start tasting true freedoms, and defend our liberties which have been bestowed upon each of us prior to conception. We are not a slave species, we do not serve persons, we serve ourselves. We need to abolish competitions that do not endorse a wholeness in succession. Through the monetary system out.

CURE, NOT CULL!

Answer 5

Guys I'm going for best answer here so please vote if you like it lol.

A cull is an action. It involves beating baby seals on the head with sticks and providing extra vermin controllers to reduce the rats. So no old people shouldn't be culled anymore than clever students who know how to antagonise answers out of people should lol.

However we can now keep baby's alive from 1 millisecond after conception until they decay while still breathing at 135 years old!

I'm all for health and safety and I'm all for advances in medicine but I'm also a great believer in Darwin's theory of evolution and survival of the fittest. And when it's my time it's my time.

I'm sure there a millions of disabled adults who have enjoyed their lives and as many if not more able bodied that haven't but I'm sure if they both had a choice at conception neither would have volunteered for the wheelchair. We talk about the right of the foetus but what right does a disabled foetus, or a child being born into disease or poverty or into abuse and degradation have not to be born at all?

Now that we have these medicines and if we go to a doctor she'll sell....errr i mean prescribe them but it doesn't mean we really need them and it doesn't mean we have to take them. Maybe if we all stopped going to the doctors so much, more of us would die and we wouldn't need to cull anyone?

Not even men

Answer 6

Old people will be culled...when their time comes....for everyone dies....

If you are concerned about over population....then study the way China has dealt with the problem.....their solution..has not been such an outstanding success.....or you could study the options Hitler and the n***s used in Germany.....

I'm sure you have some legitimate concerns....but the best way to approach the future.....is to have a good understanding of what has worked and not worked in the past........

Answer 7

They are being culled.  There is a cure for cancer but the government wont tell you it because it comes from nature and they cant patent that, old people are not saved with the medicine that is available and let them die in hospital.  They put fluoride  (ingredient in rat poison) in the water, chemicals in our food, mercury (2d most deadly toxin on earth) in our mouths and in all vaccines including children's, flu bug and Aids vaccine.  They poison the air above our city's with chemicals.  Type in Dr Gallo in the 'you tube' site and you  will see him being question about being funded by the US government in the 1960s to come up with a virus to reduce the black population in Africa...it was called aids.   More people survive HIV that do not take the vaccines than those who do.  This is mass genocide and the population had better wake-up cause it could be you next.

Answer 8

Maybe it might be more appropriate to cull the younger ones that are causing the overpopulation?

Answer 9

Who gets to decide?? Who decides the age of "old"??As I recall, Hitler had the same idea..........culling the old, worthless, mental defectives, etc. You have  good company in your idea.

Answer 10

I agree

Answer 11

only if they r grumpy!!

Answer 12

I almost did not respond to this question because i work in a facility that takes care of old people.  They are all spectacular individuals who have all accomplished something in their life that has affected our history and future in someway no matter how small it may be and they deserve our utmost respect and dedication in some way.  And some one like you thinking that to do away with the older generation would even remotely change the fact that the world is overpopulated should be made sterile so as to not populate our world with more genocidal maniacs. example  ADOLPH  HITLER.   I completely agree that we should do something with BIRTH CONTROL to help keep things better under control but not take away the human right to recreate life.  Besides if you would watch the news Mother Nature seems to have a good handle on the population control right at this very moment all over the world.

Answer 13

Is this a joke?

Who  on earth could you chose who to cull?!  

your mum?  you grandad?  Yourself?  

And how would it be done - who would cull them?

And what would you do ?  get people to volutarily sign up for culling on retirement?

agreed that the population is greater in the elderly, and how are they all going to be supported and looked after, but this could never be a solution.

Answer 14

No, because that's just the start of a social decline into mass murder, terrorism and a big brother state.

Plus, that's just soooo nasty! =)

Answer 15

No birth control laws should be passed!

Answer 16

No, Kill the old people and kill family structure and memories of the past. It would kind of be what Hitler decided to do with all the ethnic groups he didn't like. It would murder and no less. Honestly, would you kill your mother or grandfather? Think about it before you want others to do the same.

Answer 17

what is culled?

Answer 18

What is your definition of old?

My wife says that anyone twenty years older than yourself is old!

In the late 60's / early 70's there  were two movies that approached this question.

1) SOYLENT GREEN This was a futuristic movie about an over-populated earth. All food resources had been used -up  so the state fed the populace "soylent green" but they did not tell them what it was made of. The  hero of the movie eventually discovers that people are being taken from the streets ;killed; processed into protein and being fed back to  the populace. It reduces the population  and feeds the population. It's called Soylent Green.......

2) Can't think of the name of the movie

It starred Jenny Agutter and Michael York.

Basically it's all about a society that kills people when they reach the age of 30. Old is over 30.

Michael York is sent out to kill Jenny Agutter because she is approaching 30 but Michael falls in love with Jenny and does not want to kill her .

The twist in the plot is that Michael is coming up to 30 and his best-mate is sent out to kill him , so he partners up with Jenny and tries to escape.

These are really good movies to watch and make you think.

Will we eventually go that way?

Hope you find this of use .

From one old fr=t that is watching his back!

Answer 19

Cull Me. I don't mind.

Answer 20

I believe in abortion up to the age of adulthood (18 or whatever)

Answer 21

think about it. people die all the time

overpopulation happens, but so do world wars

that's what I think because that's humans unconscious way of stopping over population.

Cull me when I'm old. Id rather be dead and unable to do the thing's i want than old and unable to do the thing's i want :)

Answer 22

no