Discovery Channel hostage situation

[Tale]

Check any news outlet right now. I'm browsing a few.

 

Seems a man, identified as environmentalist protestor James Lee, has entered into the Discovery Channel headquarters and taken hostages. He has a "device" strapped to his body and reportedly a gun. He has an online manifesto demanding Discovery Channel change its programming to, among other things, support an anti-war and anti-baby agenda.

 

Reading the manifesto, the main thing I get out of it is that this man is quite emotional. And that makes the entire thing all the scarier.

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[Enoch]

Clearly a nutter. I didn't think there were any real Malthusians left!

 

The building is actually pretty close to my neighborhood. When I play basketball with co-workers, depending on where they drop me off, I sometimes end up waiting right in front of the Discovery HQ for the bus that takes me home.

[Tale]

I was completely unfamiliar with Malthus before reading about this. But the context of it frightens me. He's rather against humans in his manifesto, which leaves me uncertain on whether he respects human life.

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[Volourn]

Anti baby?

 

P.S. For a guy who is anti war, it's funny he's willing to murder people in cold blood.

[Oblarg]

Clearly a nutter. I didn't think there were any real Malthusians left!

 

The building is actually pretty close to my neighborhood. When I play basketball with co-workers, depending on where they drop me off, I sometimes end up waiting right in front of the Discovery HQ for the bus that takes me home.

 

I used to live in Silver Spring. I'd pass that building whenever I went to the movies.

 

About Malthus...

 

Anyone with a brain realizes that there is indeed an upper limit on sustainable human population.

 

The question is whether or not we are approaching that limit. Malthus was wrong in calculating the limit, as he could not anticipate the technological breakthroughs that would drastically increase food production, however technological increases can never grant us infinite food. Eventually we will hit the photosynthetic ceiling.

 

That said, this guy is a ****ing nutcase and forcing everyone not to have kids is a stupid and unfeasible solution.

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[Tale]

Anti baby?

 

P.S. For a guy who is anti war, it's funny he's willing to murder people in cold blood.

His manifesto mentions how he wants Discovery Channel to promote sterilization and infertility. To stop idealizing birth and the birthing process. And keeps referring to human offspring as some equivalant of filthy.

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[Nepenthe]

And keeps referring to human offspring as some equivalant of filthy.

Clearly he's just extrapolating from what his parents should obviously have done... Sigh, gorram crazies.

[LadyCrimson]

While I can understand a rational consideration of population growth concern, this guy is (imo) clearly a nutbag.

[Tale]

Supposedly the suspect has been shot and is in custody. All three hostages safe.

 

According to CNN banner.

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[Gorgon]

What's an 'anti baby' agenda anyway

[Gorgon]

Anti baby?

 

P.S. For a guy who is anti war, it's funny he's willing to murder people in cold blood.

His manifesto mentions how he wants Discovery Channel to promote sterilization and infertility. To stop idealizing birth and the birthing process. And keeps referring to human offspring as some equivalant of filthy.

Ahh, your basic eco terrorist nutter crying about mother earth and whatnot. How banal.

[Trenitay]

Now he's dead.

[Hurlshort]

Now he's dead.

 

Mission accomplished!

[Hassat Hunter]

And keeps referring to human offspring as some equivalant of filthy.

Well, aren't babies? HUH?

 

But yeah, nutcase.

[Calax]

What's an 'anti baby' agenda anyway

for those who don't know this is basically that we shouldn't be constantly increasing our population and should work to lower the amount of people per generation. It's usually proposed by those who are seriously worried about overpopulation which I can understand.

[Tale]

What's an 'anti baby' agenda anyway

for those who don't know this is basically that we shouldn't be constantly increasing our population and should work to lower the amount of people per generation. It's usually proposed by those who are seriously worried about overpopulation which I can understand.

He was a bit more extreme than that. Here's some quotes.

 

"All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions. In those programs

[Walsingham]

It seems to me that someone who feels humans are all worthless should begin with himself.

[Oblarg]

What's an 'anti baby' agenda anyway

for those who don't know this is basically that we shouldn't be constantly increasing our population and should work to lower the amount of people per generation. It's usually proposed by those who are seriously worried about overpopulation which I can understand.

He was a bit more extreme than that. Here's some quotes.

 

"All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions. In those programs

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Supposedly the suspect has been shot and is in custody. All three hostages safe.

 

According to CNN banner.

Oh thank god the Mythbusters are safe.

[Orogun01]

Supposedly the suspect has been shot and is in custody. All three hostages safe.

 

According to CNN banner.

Oh thank god the Mythbusters are safe.

Oh goddamn! the Mythbusters are safe.

[Enoch]

Supposedly the suspect has been shot and is in custody. All three hostages safe.

 

According to CNN banner.

Oh thank god the Mythbusters are safe.

Oh goddamn! the Mythbusters are safe.

I was thinking the same thing with regard to Kate Gosling.

[Volourn]

I really dislike humans who hate humans as much as pychos like this do. How cna one be so full of hatred for their own species? Sickening. Any human whio is more pro animal/nature than pro human are scumbags.

 

P.S. that does NOT mean I support humans who abuse animals 'cause they make me sick too.

[Humodour]

What's an 'anti baby' agenda anyway

for those who don't know this is basically that we shouldn't be constantly increasing our population and should work to lower the amount of people per generation. It's usually proposed by those who are seriously worried about overpopulation which I can understand.

 

This debate rages in Australia constantly. Most Australians do not support the idea of a 'big Australia' and want to limit population growth.

 

Personally I think the ideal solution is for the government to cut all welfare funding which encourages people to have kids. If you can't afford kids within the regular welfare programmes of universal healthcare and welfare, don't have them, or work harder till you can afford to! The government should also actively campaign to educate people to only have 0 or 1 children.

 

This should accomplish a negative natural population growth rate. Then, skilled immigration should be used to maintain population growth at a static level - take the excess from other countries.

 

I full acknowledge this will cause economic hardship at first due to the aging population and skills shortage that would occur. But we can work past this through automation - Japan proves that.

[Tigranes]

I'm not sure if Japan has 'proved' it yet. The panic of the early 2000's about the ridiculously fast transformation in age demographics seems to have subsided, but I'm not sure if we're able to say so quickly and glibly that it's been dealt with. Japan is still on the brink of a massive social change... and the aging population problem will hit Korea, France, etc. too.

[Humodour]

Oh well, Australia will have time to observe how Europe and developed Asia handle the aging population crisis before it hits us.

 

And it's certainly superior to the alternative: unfettered population growth.