So atheist folks....let me know what you think of this?

Do you know what the Onion is? Clearly not.

It's a spoof. Totally. Nothing in it is EVER true, and that's the way it's supposed to be. It's a an amazingly well-written satire, and that's all it EVER is.

It is SUPPOSED to be ridiculous. It's not an April Fool's joke. It's every day. They do amazing satire -- every day. They simply write absolutely brilliant satire.

I agree it is logical however how do we decide who dies as nobody wants to be the ones to die.

I think we need to provide mass contraception to poorer countries and strongly encourage them to use them. I am Roman Catholic and i would still see this as a plausible solution. I dont think anyone should be killed but i think we need to enforce a two child policy across the world as by having more than two children you are unfairly taking up more resources and the states money as well. Population would gradually decrease as not everyone would have two children. Our governments need to enforce strict policys on population growth but we have a problem now were we have so many old people that we need more workers to pay their pensions so while also telling people to have less kids we should tell them to save money as we will need to lower pensions.

Some people argue that we don't have an over population problem as there is a lot of spare land however not much of this is habitable and we can not use areas such as the rainforests as we need their photosynthesis.

The best solution is to enforce a two child policy were a heavy fine is imposed for breaking the rules. This does however mean the richer people can bypass this however this will not be a problem over all as it means the average standard of living will rise. Euthanasia is an option however could be considered immoral. Saying all this i believe if nothing is done in the next 50 years we will get into a similar situation as dears were once the population swells too much many die off..

Your link doesn't work, but your account of it sounds ridiculous. What scientists, where? You seem to have a view of scientists based on evil geniuses in Hollywood superhero movies. I know a lot of scientists; most of them would just like to have money to do interesting experiments, none of them want to rule the world.

To be honest the world would be better off without a lot of its population. That doesn't make it morally acceptable to kill people, least of all the "weak". Somebody tried that already, it didn't turn out well.

The way I feel about it is like asking how I feel about Lord Sauron wanting to take over Middle Earth. It's a fantasy.

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It's satire, those scientists don't exist. But like all good satire it has a grain of truth in it.

What "scientists" said that? Who decides who is "inferior"? All that needs to be done is to limit pregnancies for everyone, everywhere--fairly and humanely. If pregnancies were limited to two, population growth would stabilize within two generations and begin to decline within three. If pregnancies were limited to one (which might be a good idea for a while), population growth would begin to decline within within the second generation.

The Onion is a satirical publication.

No....as a survivor of genocide, I won't ever be in favour of 'offing' part of the population for the greater good.....unless of course we are talking about getting rid of politicians, bankers, corporate CEOs and the like.

I think it would be better if the Theist answered it.

I have no problem with offing a 3rd of the population to save the rest, but will we have to keep doing this.Maybe a better solution is to limit who breeds, will Black people think this is racist (I don't have to say why do I)?