Originally posted by Eagler:
When mortals play God, all hell will break loose....
How right you are. We play god for senturies - mostly with good intentions and ignorance.
Some smart guy introduced a potato (four times more calories) to the ignorant pesants of Ireland. They totally switched to that plant - completely foreign and new to their area and not adapted to local problems. Once the potato becomes a monoculture and population drastically increases - a desease! The whole harvest is wiped out several years in a row, no alternatives available, people die by the million.
How about explaining basic hygiene to uncivilized africans and helping with food during famines before introducing more advanced labor methods and society relations? Infant mortality plummets, population increased by order of magnitude. The land is exhaused unrecoverably and cannot even support the old number now. People live in misery dependent on handouts, many more people die in misery then ever before.
Or, yeah, while at it teach them birth control is bad...
How about the communism? Build the most efficient opression machine and see it fall into the hands of a dictator...
Nothing new now.
miko
