Oh yeah, because "taking personal responsibility" equals making a "choice between two unavoidable presented options". I'll choose $1.02/hour over $1.01/hour for the same shit job, but I'm still going to heavily complain to everyone I know that I'm getting shafted. Two bad choices = bad, no matter how you wordsmith it.

And in yesterday's culture, and in every culture that ever came before or that will ever come after.

Young enthusiastic entry level workers daydream about doing fabulous and exciting things at their employers' expense, but find out that they're actually supposed to just produce for said employer in whatever way is necessary in return for a paycheck? This is amazing news.

Americans aren't obligated to measure their political spectrum by some imagined global yardstick. Whatever the good people of some other nation and culture choose to envision as the "left" of their political spectrum is entirely up to them.

Yeah...because I want *my* preschool aged daughter to run up to random dudes all the time, hold her arms out and say "huggy!!!" without the slightest hint of trepidation. Group dynamics like imprinting and exclusion exist in our species for a reason.

Just because something has a potentially unpleasant result doesn't make it untrue.

Population doesn't need to stabilize or decrease, it only needs to stay within the realm of our technology's ability to cope with its rate of growth. That's a good enough solution for me. I don't have any concern over a population that can actually be fed...but then again most people that talk about a population "problem" really just hate the humans, not the fact of whether they can be fed or not.

Unless you live in Africa or India, it's not *our* descendants being condemned. The West has already solved its population growth problem.

Well, except for the ones that are silently hoping and waiting for us to devolve into brutality, oppression, and totalitarianism. This stuff doesn't just happen by accident. :-)

Can anyone say "head securely stuffed into sand"...

To be honest, the subversive groups that SC is most interested in tracking are grassroots domestic organizations calling for revolution and secession. These types of militia inspired cultural waves are springing up around many rural communities. Netting some Islamic terrorists would simply be a great political bonus.

That's right, wanting to have a child with a healthy immune system is just like being a Nazi. Sig heil.

Wow, three Wikipedia links in one post. We must be living at the apex of scholarship in the timeline of human history.

The Chinese are going to "sort things out" whether Slashdotters relax, don't relax or even throw a massively coordinated e-tantrum. Slashdot isn't actually really all that influential as it turns out.

They have a good point there. Animals suffering and dying in the mouths/claws of other animals makes for more entertaining documentaries.