So you have a device that will kill a random different human every second, somewhere on the planet, perpetually. However you are able to fine tune said randomness with some specifics.
We know that currently the number of births outstrip number of deaths by at least double, but is there some way to maximise the effect such a device might have, even eventually, if you play the long game and wish to achieve a more culled number, like say 1 billion?
This is a thought experiment obviously.
Currently my idea is to have the device targeting random pregnant women that are pregnant with female twins/triplets/quaduplets (etc.), and slowly working our way up in descending order until you have women currently normally pregnant with a single female babe.
At this point I still am not sure if this will put an eventual dent in the number of people on earth being born vs. dying. The long game was to skew the ratio of young, available girls for men to pair with towards an imbalanced large number of men, who are likely to spark conflict/commit suicide, die earlier due to higher sexual frustration.
There might, however be more efficient ways to go about equalizing or reversing the births/deaths ratio with perhaps targeted kills of prominent disease researchers about to make breakthroughs or the people active in curing disease. This would promote diseases to come through and wipe many of us out.
Hell, there's probably something better I'm not considering. Remember our goal is to seek population balance, and then possibly regressions to a more maintainable number.
This is a weird thread, but its what we're here for.
We know that currently the number of births outstrip number of deaths by at least double, but is there some way to maximise the effect such a device might have, even eventually, if you play the long game and wish to achieve a more culled number, like say 1 billion?
This is a thought experiment obviously.
Currently my idea is to have the device targeting random pregnant women that are pregnant with female twins/triplets/quaduplets (etc.), and slowly working our way up in descending order until you have women currently normally pregnant with a single female babe.
At this point I still am not sure if this will put an eventual dent in the number of people on earth being born vs. dying. The long game was to skew the ratio of young, available girls for men to pair with towards an imbalanced large number of men, who are likely to spark conflict/commit suicide, die earlier due to higher sexual frustration.
There might, however be more efficient ways to go about equalizing or reversing the births/deaths ratio with perhaps targeted kills of prominent disease researchers about to make breakthroughs or the people active in curing disease. This would promote diseases to come through and wipe many of us out.
Hell, there's probably something better I'm not considering. Remember our goal is to seek population balance, and then possibly regressions to a more maintainable number.
This is a weird thread, but its what we're here for.
