There are more people every generation so this would mean that at least some of our souls are not reincarnated.
And if some them are not, none of them will be.
Not that I believed in reincarnation anyway.
.. As for Karma, yes, it's bad for charity but it's also bad for aspiration. It stops the suffering inidividual from attempting to improve his own situation.
Guns simply raise the severity of crime, because you're placing more destructive power within the hands of the citizenry. However, gun laws are not directly associated with how likely you are, or not, to get some lunatic to commit murder - as they say, the gun doesn't actually kill anyone - the likelihood of this is a symptom of a degenerate culture, it has nothing to do with gun laws per se.
If the US had an effective law system that cracks down on the mafia, and didn't share a land border with the gun-toting, drug-smuggling capital of the world(Latin America), I'd move to restrict access to firearms.
What is Fascist about telling a culture its way of life is inferior and instead they should adopt the way of life you consider superior?
We're talking about telling 7 billion people how to live their lives, this is an absolutism, an elitism, a hubris and a Fascism never before seen in the annals of Human history.
But who are we to state that our way of life is better? And would you want to live in a world where no matter where you go everywhere is identical? I personally am happy in the knowledge that at least in some corners of this Earth there is no such thing as a Mcdonalds. Can it be objectively stated that the modern lifestyle of mindless consumerism is superior to say, a rustic, tribal lifestyle?
What is at issue is that many cultures across the globe are not culturally compatible with the modern Western industrial model. Now, they can either be forced to conform culturally with this model or they can allowed self-determination and the freedom to reject this model and live their own way of life.
The wrong conclusion to draw is that all of Humanity has to have one way of life and that there can be no global diversity. There is my way, there is your way, but the there is no the way.
Some countries that have modest-sized families can afford to have a greater individual carbon footprint and level of resource consumption. Essentially behaving in the modern manner.
Countries that have large families can not afford to consume heavily and need to adhere to a more traditional way of life.
To suggest that all the world must be high-tech and have small families is the greatest and most all-encompassing display of Fascism Humanity has ever known.
That's what we(the West)get for rushing the rest of the world into industrialisation. We have countries with decreasing infant mortality rates and increasing life expectancies due to the advances of modern science but yet they still have the culture suited to a more primitive society based upon large families and high death rates.
In the West we had centuries to culturally evolve with the realities of modern science and development, but much of the World has had these developments forced upon them in just a few short years by the greed of Western capital. It's erroneous to believe they will suddenly and spontaneously adapt a culture that suits the facts of the age.
One solution is that of the Chinese and perhaps even more extreme; draconian measures in law to control the population, even forced sterilisation - this is what will happen if we become more authoritarian and culturally Right wing in society.
The next is to de-industrialise parts of the world that are least likely to adapt to these modern developments. This is a tall order, and I believe Humanity is too greedy to do this(sweatshop labour is highly profitable)- this is what will happen if we overthrow the banking elites and accept a less decadent and more hard working way of life in the developed nations based upon greater self-sufficiency.
The other thing to do is to ignore the issue and do nothing, thus creating a global underclass of billions upon billions - this is what will happen if we maintain the current Liberal mindset.
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RE: Should One Believe in Reincarnation?
There are more people every generation so this would mean that at least some of our souls are not reincarnated.And if some them are not, none of them will be.
Not that I believed in reincarnation anyway.
.. As for Karma, yes, it's bad for charity but it's also bad for aspiration. It stops the suffering inidividual from attempting to improve his own situation.