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Originally Posted by Pastor Isaac Peters
I do have one concern. This plan calls for a high population density. The two most densely populated major cities in present-day America are JYC and Sin Francrisco, and we must take steps to ensure that the world does not end up like either of those places.
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I must echo your concerns Pastor Peters. I have long followed the link between high population densities and homerism. While these studies can be suspect because they were conducted by "scientists" on rats (with apologies to Sister SUV), they do raise a red flag for these questionable proposals.
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Calhoun (1962a) was perhaps the seminal work suggesting a link between crowding and social pathology. He populated a room subdivided into four contiguous pens with rats and provided them with unlimited food and water; after a year, their density was high and he reported infanticide, cannibalism, homosexuality, and the formation of a "behavioral sink": the majority of the rats would congregate to feed within a small subsection of the room, increasing their real density far above that imposed by the distribution of food or size of the enclosure, and seemingly exacerbating the social pressure of numbers. The analogy with humans apparently voluntarily flocking to decaying inner cities despite high crime rates and lower quality of life compared to rural areas was compelling and the paper widely cited. Calhoun himself promoted the analogy in papers such as "Plight of the Ik and Kaiadilt is seen as a chilling possible end for Man" (1972).
http://weber.ucsd.edu/~jmoore/public...fanticide.html
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