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Bluntly, yes. All those soldiers sleep, eat and live in a larger community. All those civil servants live in neighborhoods. Even if we accept that the entire military would just forget their sworn voe to uphold and defend the Constitution of the US against all enemies, foreign and domestic, an armed civilian populace in revolt would be a nightmare scenario.

Kudos for finding your own path. Your drive and determination will take you far in life, much farther than if you had just went with the flow, went to college, and followed the normal script.

Marketable skills are easy to learn, it's the thinking behind the learning that is tough to get. HOW to think is much more important. And I'm not at all sure that that can be taught.

'Common sense ain't so common' is a trite aphorism, but very true.

If that were true then teaching how to take the test would have resulted in a larger jump on scores.

Thank you for taking the time to explain it to us!

But who determines the cost? Who amongst us does not produce CO2?

YOU are the customer if each of these externalities that you are arguing against. Are you willing to shoulder the cost?

Stop! Stop! You're breathing my air!

That kind of thinking leads to a Logan's Run scenario. Instead, why not think of it as a part of life and work to find a solution that doesn't require the wholesale curtailment of liberties all in the name of the environment?

Polygamy leaves a very angry pool of low status males. Not very good for those in power

I think we need to slow the pace of immigration, to preserve our culture.

Except for the millions that died.

Sure it is. It's only unsustainable if you restrict the population to a limited area (ie - Earth)

There may come a time when we don't NEED a larger population to support increasing specialization, but until then a broader population base is needed to foster growth in technology.

Not to mention that those 'one in a billion' history changing genius happen in larger numbers when we have more billions...

I triedVS Code and found it to be not as enjoyable as emacs. Sure, it makes some things easier, but emacs is light years ahead in functionality. I think most of the shortcomings could be addressed with a couple of projects.

It takes less effort to not be offended