What we are doing to the planet we are living on?

[TirexMan]

Hi everyone, I am new to this forum. I have a question and would like to see where everyone stands on this.
Lets compare the world as a whole to a smaller place in an ecosystem. Lets say the maximum amount of deer in particular alloted, closed off forest, is 200. This forest supports 200 deer stability for a long period of time because of the self supporting ecosystem. Lets say a huge amount of food is dumped in that forest that only the deer eat. So the deer breed out of control and eat all the food, that food is gone and with a population of 2000 deer all the rest of potential food will be gone also. So the deer starve and die in huge quantities and after the damage they did on the environment, it supports only 20 deer now.

Since this same logic can be applied to humans and the world, why would we be worrying about something as seemingly trivial as abortion being legal or not? shouldn't space exploration be a bigger priority? Or at least more of an attention to what we are doing to the planet we are living on?

I really ask this because I do not understand your positions on this. Please help me here.

P.S. Sorry If wrong place!

[Nazreen]

Welcome to the Business Advice Forum TirexMan. Hope you enjoy your stay here.

I think your thread would be better suited in the Business Small Talk section (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=7). Anyway, your question of prioritizing on the abortion issue as compared to bigger things like space exploration is like comparing apples with oranges. It might even be more different than that because abortion is a moral and legal issue while space exploration is about science and discovery.

For you, space exploration might have more priority but to others, especially if they have a religious inclination, abortion is a bigger priority.

[Kay]

I second that emotion, Nazreen.

While you may think abortion trivial, TirexMan, there are still ways to debate issues without showing disrespect for the views of others. Throwing that in casually when it in no way relates to ecology seems strange to me, unless of course you did it to elicit responses like mine. If so, it worked.

I don't agree the same logic applies to humans. Our breeding isn't comparable to theirs. Last I heard, deers don't use contraception. :)

[Fergal]

Welcome to Business Advice Forum TirexMan. Your analogy with deer is interesting and does make a good point, that everyone should be conscious of in relation to the environment.

However, I'm not sure that it is completely relevant in relation to human beings. Humans are intelligent and inventive and can develop new food sources through science and farming. Deers cannot do that.

[Hurbel2k]

Fergal, You seem to underestimate the power of the deer ;)

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I believe in supply and demand. If there is demand for space exploration it will evolve by itself.

Now the abortion questions is well uhm... well I could argue why I like it or not, but I don't really know how to combine it with the deer logic, as this is a rather yes/no or binary question, while the deer question is an analog function. Enlighten me.