Imagine you could make fuel out of poor people. The only downside is that the poor people have to be converted to a combustible liquid in the process. Imagine that although there are many alternatives to using poor people as fuel, those alternatives cost way more. In fact, the alternatives are so much more expensive, widespread use would impact your standard of living by about twenty percent. Obviously using humans for fuel would be wrong and you wouldn’t do it. But I’m not done confusing your moral compass. Now let’s say the people who are used as fuel are volunteers, of a sort. For every twenty people who volunteer to become SUV fuel, only one will be randomly selected. The other nineteen get a host of benefits including pensions and paid educations. Let’s say human fuel is so economical that one human converted to fuel pays for the benefits to the other nineteen. And the one poor person fuels an entire town’s energy needs for a year. In this scenario, you’d be powering your car with liquefied poor people, but your conscience would be cleared by the knowledge they all volunteered. It’s a free country. They took the chance of being one of the nineteen lucky ones, but it didn’t work out. Some volunteered because they thought it was their best chance for upward mobility. Some thought it was their patriotic duty. But it was their decision. No one forced them. Let’s say the politicians argue that in the long run, this policy of using poor people for fuel will save lives. The thinking is that we’ll eventually develop other fuel sources, but for now we need the strong economy to pay for health care and a strong national defense against terrorists and whatnot. All of the volunteers are hailed as heroes. Under those conditions would you use poor people to fuel your car? Bonus question: Are you already doing something close to that? -Scott Adams General Nonsense.
You overestimate your plight! I would be the first to volunteer! I would much rather be made into fuel than to exist poor, and right now without living at home or with my sister I'd be poor + homeless. Let us agree it is better to not exist than to exist in starvation.
Oh for God's sake. <Lengthy pause> Is their consent informed consent, ie are they au fait with all the issues? ie are any of them darksidZz?
Nickelodeon is getting too big for his britches. cookie=baaad As redarmy points out darksidzz could be a viable and renewable alternative fuel source. Darksidzz how much do you weigh and do you have any brothers or sisters?
No. I could've easily worked that out if I'd bothered to give it more than a passing glance. You want a reward for being able to read? Tough - the ability is its own reward.
We already use them for work, the same as fuel is used to do work. If you are proposing that minimum wage jobs be created in the transporation field, for instance human-powered rickshaws, It wouldn't be the first time. It's a good idea.
Excellent, some representatives from Exxon will come round on saturday just cooperate and we'll save the planet.....together. Though I won't actually be used as fuel since I'm rich and sexy
I wasn't actually. I'm saying that he's not capable of making an informed, rational (ie non-emotional) decision on the matter.
I have seen it myself in cities. Then there are bicycle messengers and bicycle delivery people, it's not so absurd.