However, to suggest acceptance of a preventable disease epidemic in the interests of population control, is IMO ridiculous.
That is not what I said at all.

I posed a question - which still hasn't been answered but those that wish to irradicate 'preventable disease' either, BTW.
I never asserted anything other than speculation and an extrapolated view of an end game, where there will need to be choices made about how far individual choice goes and where species concern begins.
If you cure all this disease, in Africa for example as I have been yet again "defied" to go there and let them all die, and cure all the preventable disease, how will you feed them? Where will they get clean water from? We are presently in a country where it seems at least 30% of the population can't be bothered sharing resources with 2,500 refugees that arrive by boat every year, how are we prepared to feed millions more? Just as an outside example.

There will come a time, quite frankly vaccine or disease or not, where your choice as an individual will be curtailed by a population control policy.

Anyway, getting further OT from the OP here. My initial question still stands. When we get to the point of no preventable disease, no suffering, no children dying (and adults for that matter) what then? How will you tell people they aren't allowed to have kids because we have too many people? How will you stop the wars over the finite amount of land that exists when already die over it now?

We cannot stick our head in the sand and think that medical and scientific advancement do not have long reaching social, economic and biological effects. You can't just say "we will think about that tomorrow" - it hasn't worked for the last 300 years, not going to start now.



SAHD: Again, don't "defy" me to do anything - you don't know me, know where I have been, what I have seen. You tried to tell me you have taken control from nature - what control? What is it you think you can control? Did you/could you control it when you stood in that mud and grass hut? Apparently not.