Why do we have society where this can happen, and what should we do to fix it? Traditionally problems like that are addressed towards government-like structures of various levels (federal, municipal...) and kinds. How we should work with these problems, which are systemic?
You could ask James Madison, widely considered to be the most heavily contributing of the drafters of the U.S. Constitution:
Man who preys both on the vegetable and animal species, is himself a prey to neither. He too possesses the reproductive principle far beyond the degree requisite for the bare continuance of his species. What becomes of the surplus of human life to which this principle is competent?
It is either, 1st. destroyed by infanticide, as among the Chinese and Lacedemonians; or 2d. it is stifled or starved, as among other nations whose population is commensurate to its food; or 3d. it is consumed by wars and endemic diseases; or 4th. it overflows, by emigration, to places where a surplus of food is attainable.
Why do we have society where this can happen, and what should we do to fix it? Traditionally problems like that are addressed towards government-like structures of various levels (federal, municipal...) and kinds. How we should work with these problems, which are systemic?
You could ask James Madison, widely considered to be the most heavily contributing of the drafters of the U.S. Constitution:
Man who preys both on the vegetable and animal species, is himself a prey to neither. He too possesses the reproductive principle far beyond the degree requisite for the bare continuance of his species. What becomes of the surplus of human life to which this principle is competent?
It is either, 1st. destroyed by infanticide, as among the Chinese and Lacedemonians; or 2d. it is stifled or starved, as among other nations whose population is commensurate to its food; or 3d. it is consumed by wars and endemic diseases; or 4th. it overflows, by emigration, to places where a surplus of food is attainable.