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I concede that the current short-term political realities are a bit absurd. However, nuclear weaponry is a long-term change. They are going to be around centuries from now. That is a powerful fact. Are we humans still going to be aiming nuclear weapons at each other's population centers a...

As humans, we have an advantage over animals: we have significantly more foresight. We can properly plan for the as yet unconceived. It is that kind of foresight that enabled the framers of the U.S. Constitution to accomplish what they did. We need such statesmen now: statesmen who can balance...

I is tricky trying to balance the best interests of the born against the best interests of the yet unconcieved. There must be some statemen who can help us to achieve this while preserving democracy.

I am just trying to think of how to achieve long-term sustainability. Education would be a wonderful solution if people changed their ways and lowered their environmental footprint, but that does not seem to be the direction the world is going in quickly enough. Would bringing lottery machines...

Would it really be such a dystopia if we sterilized some percentage of newborns at random? Maybe the sterilized could be convinced to accept that reproduction is not some absolute, Darwinian mandate. Some people already choose to be childless. They do other things. They write books. They work in...

Would it really be such a dystopia if we sterilized some percentage of newborns at random? Maybe the sterilized could be convinced to accept that reproduction is not some absolute, Darwinian mandate. Some people already choose to be childless. They do other things. They write books. They work...

Does anyone think that a family size limit is impossible to implement? I can think of other means that might be more scary, such as randomly sterilizing some percentage of newborns in order to stabilize world population. What we need are laws that will help us to achieve sustainability. Being an...

Try to imagine a "better" future than the current situation and give a long time, say, 1000 years, for that change to happen. What will that change look like? I think that it will look like world government. Now the questions are, how might that change occur and can it be faster than 1000...

I think they are, which is why they maintain nukes to deter others from using nukes on them. I am not clear on the logic that arrives at this being the 'only' solution, not least because it seems to contain a host of complications itself. What about simple disarmament without all the world...

Because the nuclear weapons situation between Russia and the USA is an existential threat to both countries. You would think that in a sane world, both partiies would be interested in their long-term safety. It seems to me that a merger is the only solution that might be permanent.

This is just an idea I am working on. It is long-term (i.e. beyond our lifetimes). I would appreciate any feedback. The Union of Earth Republics The Constitution of the new Union of Earth Republics (UER) is the foundational document for the merger of all Earth nations into a single nation. It...