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  Threshold   RE: Fear Mongering By masher2 (blog) on 11/9/2008
4:58:00 PM , Rating: 4 > "So is modern better?"  Try living in
the 17th century sometime and see for yourself. Do you realize
that famlies of 10 or even 20 children were common (no modern
birth control without chemicals) and that it was common for
*half* those children to die before reaching adult hood? (no
chemical-based antibiotics, disinfectants, sewage treatment,
etc).  Do you realize that, without modern pesticides and
fertizers (both chemical-based) that starvation was commonplace,
even considered a natural state of mankind? Even though world
population was a tiny fraction of what it is today?  Do you not
consider that, before our modern lifestyle, nearly the entire
population was forced to spend their entire lives toiling in the
fields for 12-16 hours every day? No vacations, no sick leave--
if you couldn't bring in your crops, you starved, plain and
simple.  Do you know that