NYTimes: Men, Who Needs Them?

[4th law of robotics]

10. I heard an interesting comment on this.

I'm paraphrasing but basically remove the word male and replace it with any other group (blacks, jews, homosexuals, etc) and see if it comes across as bigoted.


"When I explained this to a gentile colleague and asked her if she thought that there was yet anything irreplaceable about Jews, she answered, “They’re entertaining.”"

I wonder if that op-ed would make the NY times.

/additionally if we eliminate half the population (doesn't matter by what qualifier) civilization will collapse. Look what the black plague and a 1/4 reduction in population did to a far less advanced and complicated european society. So this world he envisions would not be able to support the infrastructure necessary for in vitro fertilization, or freezers or any of the rest of it. They'd have a hard enough time feeding themselves let alone keeping the lights on.