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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just finished the book and have watched a few episodes on Hulu. I don't understand why they don't let the younger men get married and have sex. If the fertility issues are because the commander and their wives are so old then let others try to repopulate the earth. Even if the infertility is caused by environmental issues, wouldn't they want everyone to be trying to have kids? [/quote]

Because they blame the women.  They have killed all the doctors and scientists and no longer believe in science.  They are follwing the Bible (or a horrifying translation of the Bible).  Well, and because it is a story meant to horrify.  Logically, it would have been easier to pay the fertile women a lot of money to have children.  [/quote]

Agreed. Show me a historical example of a country in crisis that has turned to LOGIC and REASON as a solution--hard to think of one, right? What you always see, when a nation is struggling to cope with famine or overpopulation (in this case, underpopulation) or a power vacuum or even rapid social/technological change, is some combination of fanaticism, tyranny, violence, tribalism, return to traditional/religious values, expulsion of minorities, etc.

When they showed the women getting fired? That happened, in Iran. The women being forced to wear certain clothes and cover themselves in public? Again, the Taliban forced women who had previously been able to wear just a hijab or niqab to completely cover themselves and not go in public without a male guardian. I won't even get into the sexual slavery. These things HAVE happened and ARE happening. And it's not a stretch to say that the currents are much stronger in the US than they were in the 60's and 70's. [/quote]

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