Talk:Exploits/@comment-96.255.74.7-20170106190509/@comment-7625737-20170524205940

I'd like to point out that the Bill Gates thing is actually a misinterpretation by taking it out of context. He stated that because studies have shown that countries that have better health care and reproductive services have a lower birth rate (and not because of abortion). It's a subtle psycological thing built into us by instinct. If we believe our children will survive we're far less likely to have more. On the oppisite, if we believe our kids won't survive we're far more likely to have more kids. The same goes for every species, and you can even see it easily in various cultures around the world. People who come from or spent too much time around areas with high crime and high premature death rates, or people of certain races which have higher premature death rates, are more likely to have many children. Meanwhile people who live in safer neighborhoods and come from races with low premature death rates have less children. It's an objective view of statistics. The root of the problem boils down to healthcare and crime. Crime is more likely to cause premature death directly but it's harder to fix. Good universal health care puts a hell of a lot towards preventing premature death though, as do good reproductive services (note that the vast majority of reproductive services go towards avoiding the need for abortions, and Planned Parenthood and similar organizations around the world do far more than abortions, in fact abortions make up barely 3% of Planned Parenthood's actual services, and contraceptives (such as condoms or other birth preventative services) only make up 31%, over half of their services go towards keeping mothers and children healthy and prepared for parenthood).

Population can be reduced without direct or even indirect killing. It won't happen overnight, but it can have a drastic effect even over just one generation. If healthcare and reproductive services improved world-wide we can easily drop population by a tenth or more over a generation or two. Now if we can get the money and religion out of politics and medicine that'd be even better. Then big oil and big tobacco wouldn't have anything backing them up and they'd buckle, we'd also stop having religious wars, and we'd probably stop having wars in general because most if not all wars were fought over greed. Even religious wars were only using religion as an excuse, they were really land grabs. Human greed is really the only thing causing a problem on this world, we take care of that and the rest of the issues will fix themselves.