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To: epicure who wrote (21731)	5/18/1998 1:43:00 PM
From: Skipper	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

X, I think there are lots of good reasons for birth control, and if people want to exercise it to contribute to a lower total population, that's fine. But I would like to see my kids have the same choice that I did, and so I'd rather be experimenting with space colonization, and not with the possibility of yet another freedom being legislated away. Anyway, we have the capability. Which of our ancestors of 200 years ago could have conceived of the world we live in today. Not many. Skipper

To: epicure who wrote (21731)	5/18/1998 11:48:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

X: Seems you swallowed the "Limits of Growth" fallacy. First reported in the 1960s, they've been revising their limit upwards just about every decade. Fools don't realize they've created a modern version of "Ptolemy's Wheels"! You may consider yourself a "rat" but I think most humans are a higher life form than a rat. We are not helpless and with the privatization of space, you may well see the moon and mars colonized within your lifetime (assuming you're not over 65). As a matter of fact, if not for politics, it could have been done already! You may grovel in the dirt at your feet, but many of us have our sites on the stars (or at least the planets). The technology is already here to accomplish it. Father Terrence