Comments on: Kiddies are told they should die to save the environment

By: SansPretense » Australia’s tax dollars at work to brainwash/traumatize kids

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:27:49 +0000

[...] should have died at age 4.4. When should you have died? Answer the questions honestly! (Hat tip to Cassy Fiano who should’ve died at a disappointingly 7.5 - I have her beat, [...]

By: Msguy

Msguy — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:04:50 +0000

This sounds a little too much like it should be part of the movie Soylent Green.

By: Suzie

Suzie — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:49:44 +0000

Of course, I assumed they were sarcastic which is so much more preferable to thinking they really mean it. My bad.

By: Suzie

Suzie — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:48:03 +0000

I shouldn’t have made it to 7 years old. What in the world are these people thinking? I’m serious. I don’t understand how you could have a website that would tell a child that he/she should be dead already. Children take so many things more seriously than an adult and don’t necessarily grasp sarcasm. What happens if a child thinks they’ve lived too long according to this? Does the creator of this trash care at all?

By: Cosmo

Cosmo — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:43:03 +0000

Ooooh…I want to punch people like this right in the Adam’s apple. I wonder how many years ago Al Gore should have died? Maybe the ABC could’ve saved us all this hassle had Al taken this quiz back in ‘99. Hmmmm…now where did I put that time machine?

By: Morgan K Freeberg

Morgan K Freeberg — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:17:14 +0000

Yeah, it’s for nine year olds. They sit down in front of it and figure out they should’ve exploded at age six, and feel all guilty. Then start badgering mom & dad to go buy some carbon credits, just as nagglingly as we did the same thing about Hot Wheels, G.I. Joe and Count Chocula.

Rick has more on this same subject. Although it isn’t nearly as mind-blowingly and unabashedly “Logan’s Run” as this is.

Just amazing.

By: Expatriate Owl

Expatriate Owl — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:57:46 +0000

[For the record, my permissible lifespan was 8.5 years.]

But what is Prof. Shpinkee’s permissible lifespan? And if he has exceeded it already, why doesn’t he commit suicide for the sake of the planet?

By: Morris

Morris — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:45:36 +0000

The ABC is well known over here in Aust for being well left of centre. This sure goes a fair bit beyond, though.

By: Dummocrats.com

Dummocrats.com — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:01:34 +0000

Kiddies are told they should die to save the environment…

Kiddies are told they should die to save the environment…

By: Stephen J.

Stephen J. — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:04:30 +0000

I was seriously considering pointing out, for fairness’ sake, that many of the adherents to this particular belief are sincere in their conviction that the world is genuinely going to go to hell in a handbasket within our lifetimes if things don’t significantly change, and I don’t much like making fun of scared people… but then I read about the exploding pig, and gave it up as a bad job.

If the science is settled, you don’t need to unsettle my stomach to convince me of it.

“What we want is a patient so haunted by memories of a terrible past, or so driven by visions of a ghastly future, that he will gladly commit atrocities in the present if convinced that by so doing he will somehow make amends for the one or forestall the other.”
– Screwtape the Devil (C.S. Lewis), The Screwtape Letters