Re: justice, justice... Was: Anti-Semitism in the Neo-Confederate movement.

"Eliyahu" <lrooff@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Rafael wrote:
>> "Herman Rubin" <hrubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> >
>> > It is worse than you can consider. There are not the
>> > resources available to keep people from having to suffer
>> > the "preventable social ills". The means are not there.
>> > We might be able to do better in the future if we do not
>> > try to do too much now.
>>
>> On a long-term global basis, I fear you're correct (due to
>> overconsumption as much as to overpopulation). But scarcity can
>> hardly be blamed for preventable social ills within wealthy
>> countries, like the US, especially in earlier generations.
>>
>> > I have been told by my Indian friends that contraceptive
>> > availability is not the problem; women come in for this
>> > after they have had a half dozen or so children.
>>
>> Contraceptive availability is clearly not the end-all-be-all (as
>> our Orthodox-Jewish friends can attest). The culture also has to
>> encourage smaller families. (Unfortunately, we only learn the
>> land's ultimate carrying capacity after the fact.)
>>
> It's not just a matter of culture, but also of practicalities. We
> also face an avowed enemy who doesn't practice contraception and,
> to be blunt, breeds like rabbits. Restraint on our own part makes
> it just a matter of time until they simply crowd us off the planet
> by virtue of sheer numbers.

That was exactly the point of an article I referenced previously.
The Muslims are breeding and the Europeans are not.

Moshe Schorr
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