Hillwilliam -> RE: Police: 3 dead after ex-cop vows 'war' on other police, their families (2/13/2013 5:38:55 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Marini Rich, between the ex cop on a murderous rampage, whatever North Korea is up to, the economy, and the deterioration of society in general, I thought long and hard about the world we live in. Who would ever think we would see a cop going off like this? It's like some sort of movie, I am thinking this can't be real. sad days for this world Rich, sad days. Sigh. Makes you want to draw the blinds, turn off all the electronics, and just spend a night or weekend wallowing in freaky fornication, doesn't it? Marini, Rich, my education was in history in college, with a bit of anthropology thrown in because it interested me, for the last 20 years, I have been working on a theory about what is happening in the world now. My theory is that increasing population world wide is creating the social environment that leads to these kinds of violent incidents. Look at how much the population density in major cities around the world has increased at an almost exponential rate. I do not believe the human species was meant to live in cities, or even towns of over 10000 in population. Humans are social animals, but outside of immediate family, major social bonds are limited to a select few. The rest are not important to the individual. Of course I may be batshit crazy with this theory, and the whole idea may need its own thread. As it is, it seems to me that the more people living together, the more that go batshit crazy with homicidal intentions. You may nave a point Jeff. One of the experiments you read about in Psych 101 is the classic rats in a cage. One rat in a cage does fine and is happy Give it a mate and they start breeding and they're happy 3-4-5, etc and everything is copacetic. Depending on cage size and the strain of rat, at a certain density which is consistent from experiment to experiment, when a certain threshhold is crossed for population density all hell breaks loose. They fight to he death, mothers eat their young and in general the whole social order goes to hell. This happens even if you have plenty of material resources and there is no need to fight over them.
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