Rick Santorum has recently caused a stir by suggesting that contraception is dangerous to society. Let's take a look at what might have happened if over the course of history we implemented a Planned Parenthood style two-child policy. What worthy people would not have been born? And, what unworthy persons would have survived?
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First, let's decide on a Planned Parenthood style program. First, each person is entitled to two children. This means that you are not disqualified from existing if you have older half-siblings. Second, if your older siblings die before you would have been born, you are allowed to exist. We will only consider birth order, though we think Planned Parenthood might want to eliminate persons with birth-defects, as well, and there are two on our list of geniuses who might have been candidates for abortion. We are also allowing Leonardo Da Vinci to survive, even though he was born out of wedlock, which almost certainly means he was the result of an unplanned pregnancy.
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I found a list of the top 50 geniuses of all time:
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Albert Einstein
Leonardo Da Vinci
Nikola Tesla
Sir Isaac Newton
Stephen Hawking
Michelangelo
Archimedes
Warren Buffet
Swami Vivekananda
Samuel Johnson
Immanuel Kant
Aristotle
Pablo Picasso
Niles Bohr
Thomas Jefferson
Plato
Winston Churchill
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Edison
Daniel Tammet
William Shakespeare
Kim Peek
Ludwig van Beethoven
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart
Sir Francis Drake
George Berkeley
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Socrates
Linus Pauling
Christopher Michael Langan
Michael Faraday
Blaise Pascal
Galileo Galilei
Martin Luther
Robert Boyle
John Locke
Charles Darwin
Johannes Kepler
Napoleon Bonaparte
Garry Kasparov
John Stuart Mill
Rene Descartes
George Washington
Miguel de Cervantes
Francois Marie-Arouet (Voltaire)
Baruch de Spinoza
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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We are not going to argue the content. We will just stipulate that these are probably people we would like to have around.
We are not going to argue the content. We will just stipulate that these are probably people we would like to have around.
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And this list of the top 16 mass murderers of all time:
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Slobodan Milosevic
Harry S. Truman
Genghis Khan
Benito Mussolini
Idi Amin
Saddam Hussein
Suharto
Jean Kambanda
Leonid Brezhnev
Menghistu
Kim Il Sung
Pol Pot
Hideki Tojo
Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Mao Ze-Dong
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Again, for the sake of argument, we are not questioning the content, though we might not agree with Harry Truman being on the list.
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Using the Internet as a source, and if anyone would like to correct anything, please let me know, I found data on siblings and birth order for most of these individuals. However, I did not find enough information to apply the rules for the following:
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Archimedes
Samuel Johnson
Socrates
John Locke
Garry Kasparov
Jean Kambanda
Menghistu
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Of the worthy group, we would lose the following:
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Nikola Tesla
Immanuel Kant
Aristotle
Thomas Jefferson
Plato
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Edison
Johann Sebastian Bach
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Michael Faraday
Galileo Galilei
Martin Luther
Robert Boyle
Charles Darwin
Rene Descartes
George Washington
Miguel de Cervantes
Francois Marie-Arouet (Voltaire)
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Of the mass murdering group, we only lose one, Pol Pot.
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Imagine how history would have unfolded if Planned Parenthood had succeeded with their vision. Is it dangerous?
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