[TML] A Plague of Spacemen

[Richard Aiken]

On 10/18/07, Jerry W Barrington <jursamaj at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  Look at the difference in
> birth rate in 1st world vs. 3rd world countries.  Even between the better
> off and the worst parts of USA.  It's not just availability and use of birth
> control.  Lower tech requires higher birth rate to offset expected
> mortality.  Curing the mortality doesn't change the mindset of the people in
> just a few years.

Or generations.  I was listening to two of my young female co-workers
gossip at my chocolate shop job last evening.  One (19) graduated from
the same high school - Cocke County - that the other (17) still
attends.  The gossip consisted mainly of a long list of which boys had
been in fights (some multiple times) . . . and which girls had gotten
pregnant.  One of the pregnancies was (at least according to the
gossip) due to brother/sister incest.

Yep.  It's rural Tennessee.  :/

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident."  Robert A. Heinlein