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Originally Posted by Bulgaroctonus
Just look at the pandemic from another point of view.
I think that a large outbreak of flu in Southeast Asia could be enourmously beneficial. China poses an increasingly mortal threat to the United States. Thus, it is in the United States interest to engineer a large outbreak in Southeast Asia and have it spread to China. Such an epidemic could kill many hundreds of millions of people and help bring China to its knees.
Of course, the United States should deny involvement and promptly seal its borders.
Besides, the world suffers from population problems, and diseases are important in curtailing our bacteria-like multiplication.
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Um, yes... anyhow - ignoring the previous 15 posts of this thread and getting back to the last pertinent one quoted above... I say bravo. That is brilliant and, I am loathe to use the hated term, "out of the box" thinking.
I am not sure why, except the simple logic of defense of self, home and family, that you feel that such an epidemic would be best if inflicted upon the generally poor people of SE Asia and China. Im no fan of the Chinese Communist government and deeply despise what they did to Tibet, for one, but the fact remains that it is the first world, America at its lead, that effect vastly more damage to the natural environment that supports all of humanity.
Homo Sapiens will be controlled at some point in the future by the forces of nature as we continue to tip the scales out of balance. The most obese weight tipping that scale is, not so shockingly, America and its throwaway consumer culture.
Bird Flu? Works for me. Having studied ecology for a long time, I have noticed that this planet tends to operate on a systemic paradigm of balances. Sometimes the reaction to every action takes a long time to come along, but it always comes.
I cannot help but think that at some point, America and the first worlds rather egregious overuse and consumption of natural resources will bite us in our collective ass. I can only think that the poor Chinese Commies will be laughing their asses off, until they get theirs.
I digress. The point is - what goes around comes around, and that applies just as equally on the macro-global scale as it does the interpersonal relationship micro-scale.