[FRIAM] ill-conceived question

[Prof David West]

I once taught an honors course, with Father Smith at St. Thomas on the Anthropology and Theology of War. One of the prime forces behind war — since prehistory — had been nothing more than birth control.

davew


On Sat, May 2, 2020, at 12:37 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> Well, in a sense that’s correct. But their method of “birth control” <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238356686_A_Utopian_perspective_on_ecology_and_development> is not one that I am prepared to take as a model. Just imagine the worst sort of dystopian post apocalyptic novel. See the description of the Calhoun experiment on p 224.

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> Nick

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> Nicholas Thompson

> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

> Clark University

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> < You recall that I invoked as a model that experiment in which 24 rats were put in a quarter acre enclosure in Baltimore and fed and watered and protected to see how the population would develop. They never got above two hundred. >

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> Maybe the rats were right?

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> Marcus

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