While developing these Lifehaven survival of humanity ideas it becomes helpful to discuss them with other people. Below is a list of reasons why it seems to be a difficult topic for various people to discuss. Some may consider it a list of why to ignore Doomsday, and the Lifehaven project, but others might consider it to be a list of opportunities for discussion. The list might be the doom of the Doomsday Project, or its beginning. Here is a long list so it will be easy for you to choose a reason for not supporting the Lifehaven Project.
- People don’t like to talk about their own death.
- People don’t like to talk about others surviving after their personal death.
- I don’t care what happens after I die, because, I won’t be conscious anyway.
- Doomsday probably won’t happen until December 24th of 2012, or some other random date, so there’s still time to enjoy ourselves.
- People have trouble thinking reasonably about workable answers to really big problems.
- People have trouble thinking about things outside of their personal experience.
- People avoid discussing things that might impose some limitations upon them.
- People want to maximize their options and freedoms, and limit their responsibilities and payments.
- Supporting say six Lifehavens, with one thousand people each, is just too expensive for only 6.7 billion people — after all that’s one person for only every million people.
- Big issues bring out the irrational in people’s thinking and tend to go rather easily to extremes.
- Things are great now, so why bother changing anything.
- Things are so rotten now there is no hope of ever changing them.
- These are ultimate issues, and that interferes with religious doctrines.
- It isn’t polite to talk about religion, and ultimate things.
- It isn’t polite to talk about sex and reproduction.
- All birth control is based on ugly operations.
- Birth control interferes with pleasure, and we don’t have enough pleasure as it is.
- It is against cultural, and religious policy to limit births or even to talk about limiting births.
- Birth control is evil, and should be prevented.
- If we don’t reproduce our enemies will replace us.
- I don’t care what you say, I want all the children I can possibly have.
- It is my duty to have all of the children I can possibly raise.
- Having a baby would give my life a purpose, and meaning.
- Having a baby may be in my control, but the survival of that new soul is in God’s hands.
- The whole subject is repulsive, and contentious so I won’t talk about it.
- People don’t like to argue about silly things, and Doomsday is the silliest thing ever.
- We should not interfere with the natural order of things like birth and death.
- Its okay for others to limit themselves, but I need a little more.
- The problem is on the other side of the world, so why should I worry?
- Our family is already doing everything we can to save the world like recycling plastic bags, and driving a Prius.
- We are doing our part, and already have compact fluorescent lights.
- Water is the biggest problem, but we don’t have that problem locally.
- It is all the big money capitalists who are controlling things.
- It’s the government’s fault; it’s always the government’s fault.
- The lawmakers say we can’t pass unpopular laws.
- The police say we can’t enforce unpopular laws
- The local leaders say population policy will have to be done worldwide not just locally, and if we limit our population foreigners will just move in.
- It is already too late, and nothing can be done so let’s have another drink.
- Live to the maximum, because we will all be dead soon no matter what.
- Only crazy people think about Doomsday, and surviving it.
- It is impossible to survive Doomsday.
- I want to be on ground zero, and just die instantly.
- Only doomed prophets talk about Doomsday publicly.
- God takes care of me personally, and I have personal proofs.
- God takes care of humanity, because he loves us all, and he said he would not let it happen again. And there is a rainbow to prove it.
- God works in mysterious ways.
- It will all work out in the end.
- We will muddle through okay, because we always have.
- No sane person would ever use an H-bomb, so why worry?
- H-bombs have never been used and never will be.
- H-bombs have been around for 50 years, and have never been used.
- I already live in a safe place.
Perhaps this list could be extended to a hundred. People seem to think a list of Top 10 or Top 100 means something special. Later.
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Indeed, formidably funny as hell.
I hear ya bro, stay tuned…
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