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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on September 19, 2011, 10:21:58 pm ---Yes, it is. It isn't necessarily where people want it--and perhaps you missed my parenthetical comment about Texas, which was not meant as a joke--but the total amount of water on the planet is not diminishing. It's easier to clean up water than it is to go on indefinitely taking up land to bury poopie disposable diapers.
I agree with you about the fountains in Las Vegas. I also remember when people moved to the Southwest to escape the flora and climate of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, and instead they've just replicated that flora in the Southwest (lawns, plants not native to the area), and it takes water to do that. That was just plain stupid.
But ill-advised and stupid misuse of water resources by ill-advised and stupid people does not mean that water is not a renewable resource. As long as rain continues on the planet, water will be a renewable resource.
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Yeah, I've always thought that was a misunderstood problem. I can see why it's not wise to waste water in the West. But in Minnesota, Land of 10,000 Lakes (and actually more than that), it always seems like kind of a non-issue.
milomorris:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on September 19, 2011, 06:56:49 pm ---Fresh water isn't a renewable resource.
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Nuclear reactors are used to de-salinize sea water in some places.
milomorris:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on September 19, 2011, 06:19:59 pm ---Letting God do his will is basically letting nature take its course. If it meant his death or his health was at risk, I daresay he'd interrupt God's will with medical treatment and surgery, but not when it comes to family planning and birth control.
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LOL!!!
Del, men have been putting themselves at personal risk in a multitude of ways for humanity's entire history in order to ensure the survival of the species, tribe, country, and family. So I don't think men would shirk the responsibility of bearing children if that were the case. Honorable men would step up to the plate and do what was needed.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: milomorris on September 19, 2011, 10:57:44 pm ---LOL!!!
Del, men have been putting themselves at personal risk in a multitude of ways for humanity's entire history in order to ensure the survival of the species, tribe, country, and family. So I don't think men would shirk the responsibility of bearing children if that were the case. Honorable men would step up to the plate and do what was needed.
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LOL, indeed.
Milo, up until about the past century, women of childbearing age had a much higher mortality rate than men. Can you guess why? Yep, that's right, they were putting themselves at personal risk in order to ensure the survival of the species, tribe, country and family.
Still, men's life expectancies -- especially in older age groups -- weren't always dramatically higher, despite their lower mortality rate in childbearing years. Why not? Says Wikipedia: "Traditional arguments tend to favor socio-environmental factors: historically, men have generally consumed more tobacco, alcohol and drugs than females in most societies, and are more likely to die from many associated diseases such as lung cancer, tuberculosis and cirrhosis of the liver."
milomorris:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on September 20, 2011, 12:08:49 am ---LOL, indeed.
Milo, up until about the past century, women of childbearing age had a much higher mortality rate than men. Can you guess why? Yep, that's right, they were putting themselves at personal risk in order to ensure the survival of the species, tribe, country and family.
Still, men's life expectancies -- especially in older age groups -- weren't always dramatically higher, despite their lower mortality rate in childbearing years. Why not? Says Wikipedia: "Traditional arguments tend to favor socio-environmental factors: historically, men have generally consumed more tobacco, alcohol and drugs than females in most societies, and are more likely to die from many associated diseases such as lung cancer, tuberculosis and cirrhosis of the liver."
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I get that. What Del is saying is that men wouldn't man-up if they had to bear children, and my point is that the history of men putting themselves at personal risk for the greater good suggests otherwise Hunting large mammals, defense, and working with potentially deadly machinery has been putting men at personal risk far more often than once every 9 months.
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