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Originally Posted by u-Bob
The only way I ever see the food running out is after a nuclear war or some cosmic disaster. I grow some of my own vegetables, my neighbor grows vegetables, I buy milk from a local farm,... People are still buying to products i sell, I invest, I save money for a rainy day,...
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Ignorance is bliss.
It's great that you live where you live - but some places in the world people are starving. Because there is NO FOOD.
How can you be so blind to not see that?
Are you comparing kings and priests with scientists? You really think that decisions made based on nothing (kings and priests) are the same as decisions made based on science. Do you not understand science? It's based on facts, observable facts and repeatable results. Over the past 2000 years how much has religion progressed versus science?
Your idea of everyone can do what they want as long as they don't hurt anyone else only works in an environment where everything is unlimited.
In the one we live in today, reality, our resources are limited. That means when one more human comes onto Earth everyone else has a little less they can use. By just being born another human is taking a piece of that pie. And it all works out as long as the pie isn't being eaten too fast. How do we know what's too fast? We look at past experiences and results and we apply that knowledge to future forecasts using science. Then we set guidelines so that while everyone has their freedom, no one person disturbs the equilibrium so much that the whole thing collapses.