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it is a profession! You and your allies could be using your -powers of persuasion to remove that bonus.
(And you are, of course; I m suggesting that it could be the main thrust of your attack.)
But birth control by coercion isn t just unpleasant; it could conceivably get us lynched. Whichever
groups take the biggest proportion of welfare checks, won t they be the ones to scream Genocide?
And won t the lawyers and the newspersons love it? In fact, they d be right. It s the thrust of my
argument: you re committing genocide, in your fashion, against altruists who read.
If there s a better choice, we should take it.
And there is.
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You say, Nations have become rich in the past, but always at -the expense of other nations who
became the poorer for it. You re dead wrong, but in this case it doesn t matter. What counts is that
there Ore no such nations now in orbit, on the Moon, or in the aster-oids.
There s nobody to be hurt out there. The wealth is there to be grabbed: sunlight, metals, oxygen loosely
bound in rocks, free fall, all raw materials for creating clean power and wealth; and one more the space
to dump endless pollution. You could vaporize the Earth without noticeably polluting interplanetary
space. If we could move most of our polluting industries into orbit, we create considerable elbow room,
not to mention drinkable river water and breathable air.
Nowlet s make the whole world rich. The populationmight drop, and we ve given them more room.
and if civilization fails any-way, there would be populations off Earth who might be able to start it over.
RE-REBUTTAL
by Isaac Asimov
Larry, you ve simply repeated what you said in the first place, in a louder voice.
I ll stand on what I said in reply.
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