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5529900 No.5529900 [Reply] [Original]

Why doesn't everyone on Earth quarentine themselves for a month and eliminate the common cold virus?

>> No.5529907

because how the hell would we do that?

the semantics behind such a thing would be too much, at least in our present time.

>> No.5529910

OP in charge with thinking things through to their full consequences.

>> No.5529915

>>5529910
>full consequences
>implying eliminating the common cold is a bad thing

you in charge of critical thinking

>> No.5529948

>>5529910
Leave frodo alone

>> No.5529950

Why doesn't the Earth government kill half of the world population with the lowest IQs?

>> No.5529959

>>5529950

why kill? just castrate them and have a vast workforce for all the menial jobs.

someone has to polish my shoes, you know.

>> No.5529963

>>5529959
To save on food and resources and space.

>> No.5529970

>>5529963

but they'll be the ones producing food.

>> No.5529972

>>5529970
Perhaps they should BE food.

>> No.5529975

>>5529972

that's short-term thinking.

>> No.5529977

>>5529975
It's the good old "Teach a mad to fish (and eat what he fishes)" vs "Eat the man".

>> No.5529979

>>5529977

i love how pratchett put a similar thought. paraphrasing "give a man fire, and you will keep him warm for a night. throw a man into fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life".

>> No.5529981

>>5529979
The difference is, that is a joke, not a philosophy.

>> No.5529984

>>5529981

of course it is a joke. still a valid variation on the typical fish & man thing.

>> No.5529990

>>5529979
I didn't know this one. I haven't read much Pratchett, even though I've got like 6 or 7 of his discworld books somewhere on my shelves.

>> No.5529989

>>5529959
>implying you're in the high half

>> No.5529993

I think a good place to start on the world population issue is to eliminate all the Jews.

>> No.5529994

>>5529989

oh yes i am. you don't realize how stupid one has to be to be in the bottom half.

>>5529990

i highly recommend the series about the ankh-morpork city watch. all of it.

>> No.5529998

won't it just go in crystal mode or whatever and infect the first person who goes out

>> No.5529999

>>5529993
>eliminate the most intelligent demographic

hurr

>> No.5530002

archive dis shit

>> No.5530004

>intelligence created medicine which skyrocketed the population resulting in the shithole we have today
>intelligence created the burning of fossil fuels which is currently sending the planet into rapid climate change
>intelligence creating a system of disconnected individuals addicted to technology resulting in lower quality and satisfaction of life
>intelligence actually fixing anything in the long term
durr

>> No.5530005

>>5529999
easy, Feinberg

>> No.5530021

>>5530005

It's spelled Einstein, Sherlock.

>> No.5530028

>>5530004

If you don't like those things, nothing is stopping you from adopting the lifestyle we had before them. Just fucking move to the jungle and live in a hut. But you won't, because you don't actually mean any of that, you're just whinging.

>> No.5530043

>>5530021
I think he is talking about Joel Feinburg, not Albert.

>> No.5530064

The cold virus could live in other organisms in the mean time. It's not out of the question. Besides, colds aren't deadly like influenza.

>> No.5530217

I thought colds were God's way of reminding us once or twice a year that we are in fact human and are prone to illness. Without colds I don't think we'd truly be able to handle sickness of a significant degree when it happens.

>> No.5530226

>>5529910
they'll never be the same

>> No.5530271

>>5529900
We would also have to
1. sanitize every surface
2. eliminate all swine
3. eliminate all birds