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I was trying to make a point about right to life with this example but I now realize that it doesn't work so I guess this really doesn't have a point anymore.
If you want to discuss the current situation with overpopulation and the world I will put my 2 cents in. Or at least state my ethical problem.
If you want to make it more realistic to Earth today we would have to throw in some more variables. Overpopulation is not the biggest problem here, it is too many people with a high standards of living. For most of us, we could be replaced by 10 or 20 people with extremely low standards of living and they would still not use as many resources as us and we would have no problem on a global scale. But the problem occurs when those 10 to 20 people start using as many resources as we do.
This is a problem I am still very split ethically when I try to be realistic. Do I hold back other people's standards of living to protect my and the people around me's interests, lower my standard of living, or watch more people gain a higher standard of living and outstrip the world of resources and face a massive global economic collapse followed by war, disease, and all that fun stuff?
Nihilism sets in really fast here....
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