Agreed. "You can't tell people not to reproduce and you can't kill people to preserve resources and space." ...What a naïve opinion of human history is was what I thought! Watch a documentary people... The American West and the slaughter of Native Americans is probably the most recent on obvious to me. Humans naturally kill in order obtain resources for themselves and their families. This will just make the pressure to commit violence for such purposes more tempting. We all just need to die of old age like nature intended. Don't be greedy. F**king die when your time is up people.

People tend to keep their old phones and there's little reason why you couldn't just re-activate some else's. Perhaps ask a friend for his and use that older model? If that doesn't work for you, Walmart still has old style phones in their electronics departments... I feel your pain though.... I use a phone to communicate, not to look at mini-versions of Facebook. Also touch screens annoy the crap out of me (unresponsive and typo prone). I use a 6 year old Samsung slide phone ATM. Laziness and a physical keyboard is why I keep it. I can wait long enough to open my laptop if I want an "app".

I was home-schooled as well and I completely agree with LaurenCates and penix1 on this one. If I have kids I won't home school them. I don't think learning should take precedent over allowing a kid to be a kid (i.e. making friends and being involved in cohort of other like minds). If become concerned with their academic progress I will take the time to personally tutor them and help them with their homework.

Being able to understand other cultures to form my own opinions would be great! These awful language barriers feed all manner of stupidity (e.g. wars, distrust, etc.). As for culture transfer? Pshh, whatever man, we have art and poetry for that stuff. We shouldn't mourn progress on that account.