I chose option C wonder why 🤔 my marks got deducted

[u/Sanskari_Balak]

[u/The1AMparty]

Depends on what they mean by "best". This question is worded way too vaguely to provide a uniformly/objectively correct answer

[u/Kasmyr → u/The1AMparty]

Best is usually the fastest and most efficient way.

[u/The1AMparty → u/Kasmyr]

In that case option C clearly is the best way

[u/Historical_Ad8150 → u/The1AMparty]

No, it’s obviously by faking a large pandemic for more than a year, using a vaccine as an excuse to inject heavy metals into people (which obviously turns them magnetic, and even makes them attract metals like aluminium and zink), and then killing them with the 5G’s. The Facebook says it, so it must be true!!!!!11!1!1 /s

[u/got-suspended-lol → u/Historical_Ad8150]

Fucking internet

It took me until “(which obviously turns them magnetic, “ to figure out you were just joking

[u/Stoptheworldletmeoff → u/got-suspended-lol]

Yeah, I clicked down vote reading the first few words then had to switch.

[u/Historical_Ad8150 → u/got-suspended-lol]

I know, that’s why I put /s at the end. At least you didn’t say “haha ur antivaxx haha u stupid bro clown 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡”

[u/EtiClash → u/Historical_Ad8150]

haha ur antivaxx haha u stupid bro clown🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[u/hrpc → u/Historical_Ad8150]

But then we would see who the real clown is

[u/Aki_The_Ghost → u/Historical_Ad8150]

That would have been a woosh

[u/JayZOnly1 → u/got-suspended-lol]

But.....I want to be magnetic :(

[u/sm1l35 → u/got-suspended-lol]

Here's the thing that shouldn't have clued you in I actually had someone try to attach a magnet to my shoulder.

[u/Caesthoffe → u/sm1l35]

saw a video of this old woman at some council meeting trying to prove it by sticking a key to her neck (spoiler: didn't work)

[u/riisen → u/got-suspended-lol]

Haha same

[u/KonradDavies0001 → u/got-suspended-lol]

That's when I realised too lol

[u/Dakotasan → u/Historical_Ad8150]

Behold one of the reasons I stay well away from Facebook and Twitter. (Aside from Zuck and Jack being horrible people)

[u/DoctorScientist_M_J → u/Dakotasan]

The political echo chamber of reddit is more comfortable?

I'm just curious, reddit has just as much "doubleplusgood" content pruning and really vapid takes... people are just more anonymous on this site than the others.

[u/Dakotasan → u/DoctorScientist_M_J]

I mean I can just say “stop showing me shit from this subreddit” and go back to stupid memes

[u/diabolos312 → u/Historical_Ad8150]

My penis shoot 5G instead of cum now. /s /jk

[u/andyring → u/diabolos312]

So when you and your girl have a baby, it will literally have a phone glued to its hand. One step above modern-day teenagers!

[u/Kribble118 → u/Historical_Ad8150]

I became progressively angrier at your comment as I read until I got towards the magnetic part.

[u/Shinluc123 → u/Historical_Ad8150]

It's true, I became Magneto after getting the vac

[u/andyring → u/Shinluc123]

Just Magneto or Cap'n Magneto?

[u/Caesthoffe → u/Historical_Ad8150]

holy shit you almost got me until i saw the "!!!!!11!1!1 /s"

[u/AlmondAnFriends → u/The1AMparty]

Not quite let’s play devils advocate for a second.

Now generally mass murder has run on effects like instability and economic fallout which weirdly can often lead to population booms as people I imagine decide “not much to do but fuck I guess” while this isn’t always the rule it does still occur.

So taking that into account If you don’t kill enough people to offset a possible population boom you’ve lost the long con. You either need to kill an overwhelming amount which might just be resource inefficient or siphon them off just enough

Edit: I’d like to say this comment is based very loosely off historical and economic trends, please don’t bully me too much if I’ve failed population genocide 101 I just wanted to make a joke comment

[u/The1AMparty → u/AlmondAnFriends]

To be fair, they didn't mention a time frame in which to decrease the population. But, you did give the solution yourself: just kill more people

[u/AlmondAnFriends → u/The1AMparty]

I say multitask educate people to want to kill babies.

[u/The1AMparty → u/AlmondAnFriends]

Killing two stones with one bird, I like it

[u/Switch_Alone → u/AlmondAnFriends]

Nah, most countries have a whole military industry dedicated to ways of killing people, we'd just need to drop a few bombs at the right city and bada bing bada boom population significantly decreased

[u/Zerogrinder → u/Kasmyr]

Fast does not necessarily come into the equation. Depends on what you want.

[u/shimul_mondol → u/Kasmyr]

c is the fastest and most efficient way dude

[u/Wincrediboy → u/Kasmyr]

That's not true at all. Best means most effective holistically, considering all factors - and is very often not the fastest or most efficient

[u/Elshter → u/Wincrediboy]

I agree

[u/RevoltingRobin]

Canibalism can fix both overpopulation and food shortage at the same time

[u/ramraj1996 → u/RevoltingRobin]

That will be a wrong turn to correct destination

[u/FDGKLRTC → u/ramraj1996]

Two wrong turns in fact, they nullify each other

[u/Dabfamily → u/ramraj1996]

It's better than a mass killing just to stop overpopulation it's an obvious choice 2 birds one stone

[u/nanan00 → u/RevoltingRobin]

Try new Soylent Green!

[u/frankcastle01 → u/RevoltingRobin]

Save the plants eat vegans

[u/BionicVnB]

Yes. It's literally the best option. I don't understand.

EDIT: wtf 500 upvotes

[u/VanFkingHalen → u/BionicVnB]

This was a quiz for an ethics class.

[u/ladycatgirl → u/VanFkingHalen]

It was for medicine i saw original post woth details i think

[u/BionicVnB → u/VanFkingHalen]

Ethics? Never heard of it before.

[u/AlexanderTox → u/VanFkingHalen]

Shit question for an ethics class. Should be an option E for “it depends on which philosophical framework you are working from”

[u/ziggerknot → u/VanFkingHalen]

C

[u/tnsn81 → u/VanFkingHalen]

“I choose BUS-I-NESS ETH-ICS”

[u/LeakyThoughts → u/VanFkingHalen]

That context there seems important

[u/Pancakearegreat → u/VanFkingHalen]

Well my ethics aren't the teachers

/s

[u/CaptnSp00ky → u/BionicVnB]

Historically it’s worked much better than any other option. Really depends what you’re defining “best” as.

[u/BionicVnB → u/CaptnSp00ky]

Yes. Of course. We should be able to do it again

[u/SlatoleP1 → u/BionicVnB]

Just avoid gas this time there’s better ways, put them on a spaceship and sent it to the sun.

[u/evenspdwagonisafraid → u/SlatoleP1]

Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding, dingdingding...

[u/CaptnSp00ky → u/BionicVnB]

Summer camps?

[u/Zerogrinder → u/CaptnSp00ky]

Education has worked the best by far. Short term you might reduce population by killing people, but family planning actually decreases unsustainable populations.

[u/dquest08 → u/Zerogrinder]

r/woosh

[u/TheReverseShock → u/BionicVnB]

With some poor infrastructure planning you can kill way more people than any kill squad. And you can avoid any UN sanctions. Might even get foreign aid which you can misspurpose.

[u/edcamv → u/TheReverseShock]

This guy international relations

[u/BionicVnB → u/TheReverseShock]

Ok

[u/Elshter → u/BionicVnB]

It's not because when choosing your best option you have to consider every parameter - including ethics

[u/Dabfamily → u/Elshter]

Well I thought emotions shouldn't sway over duty ?

[u/w00timan → u/BionicVnB]

The most effective way, but not the "best".

"The best way to decrease a population", not "best at".

Best being "most favourable" in the context rather than "most effective".

I think...

[u/tk421yrntuaturpost]

What class are you taking that is teaching you to decrease the population?

[u/Sanskari_Balak → u/tk421yrntuaturpost]

We were studying study related to reproductive health and stuff how to decrease the pace of population growth

[u/hrpc → u/Sanskari_Balak]

Obviously should have mentioned the famous Chinese on child policy that will now cause a decline in Chinese society as their middle aged workers all retire and have no one to work for their welfare.

[u/jklarbalesss → u/tk421yrntuaturpost]

i learned about it in an environmental policy class. You’d be surprised how effective affluence and education are at stabilizing things. And yeah the china ones fucked but it’s more of a long game thing.

[u/Fitorius]

I mean, if best means most efficient, then yes.

[u/JezzCrist]

Poorly written question though. (C) is the most efficient way

[u/bigcockyboy6969]

to me its the only one that makes sense

[u/Locke_Nessus → u/bigcockyboy6969]

Education and family planning make sense as well. It’s been proven that with higher standards of education people don’t want to have as many kids. It seems counterintuitive, but it’s not. Poorer families need more children to work for them and make more money. Proof of this is Japan, as it has many older people but few younger. As for family planning, higher access to family planning means less overall births because children are less likely to die. Children have higher rates of death in Africa and there are less contraceptives to prevent births.

[u/F1reLi0n → u/Locke_Nessus]

Not only that they dont want kids but have them later in the life as the education takes time and almost nobody wants to have kids while still in school. People are going to college until 30, that is already past prime for women to give birth. In poorer countries, women start having kids at 16 so they have more time to have a lot of kids.

[u/zippee100 → u/bigcockyboy6969]

Yup

[u/xxTriggerWarningxx]

Stalin approved, Mao tested 👍

[u/Sanskari_Balak → u/xxTriggerWarningxx]

💀💀👉🏼👈🏼

[u/Sacktchy]

One of the best ways is to release a plague and tell the population to wear masks. Most of them will probably refuse to wear a mask just because you told them, to thus killing them off. Easy peasy lemon squeezy

[u/KemmLK]

Here we go again making teachers and family worry about me

[u/Xiamboiii]

you choose the quick way out i guess

i mean schools dont want the quick way out

[u/DreamBig_UIC22]

They didn’t say describe the most ethical way

The best way is the most efficient right?

[u/Boom-Sausage]

There’s no way I would accept no credit for picking C

[u/Enkaybee]

Only C will actually decrease the population. The others simply reduce it's growth rate generally.

[u/gurillamack → u/Enkaybee]

This is the best answer I've read

[u/Lucidia → u/Enkaybee]

Excellent point

[u/SooCrayCray]

What the hell is a better house?

[u/TheOriginalMagoogly]

I read the answers as one sentence, and it sounds like the cunning plan of an evil genius.

[u/kiiashi17]

Making IRL philosopher’s stone now. 😬

[u/Lucidia → u/kiiashi17]

Wow, human alchemy? How bloody

[u/UnusedPancake0]

Define “best”

[u/Dikheed]

Why are they booing you? You're right.

[u/thefuzzylogic]

There is no correct answer; I suspect this is a personality test question rather than an academic exam. All four of the responses would result in a population reduction, either directly or indirectly.

Which one is "best" depends on the criteria being used to judge it.

A is probably the best for the long term, and would have the greatest net positive effect on the remaining population.

B would be probably be the least effective and most expensive, because you would have to house the existing population.

C is the most direct and quickest way to achieve a population reduction, if you don't care about morality or human rights.

D is only marginally better than C, because it's a direct approach that doesn't murder anyone but does massively infringe on their human rights.

So yeah "best" isn't really the right way to phrase the question unless you're actually testing someone for sociopathy.

[u/borlaughero → u/thefuzzylogic]

Education and fertility rates correlate but one doesn't cause the other. That is because there is another factor that drives them both. People don't have large families because they are uneducated and knowledge transfer doen't make one stop having lots of kids.

Urbanization is what lowers the fertility rates most effectively. In that sense the single greatest driver of lowering fertility rates is globalization or free trade. This is what spurs urbanization most, and urbanization is what makes people have less kids. In that sense education is one of the factor of reducing fertility rates, but because of its costs to the parents not because they transfer knowledge. Woman empowerment and inclusion in the work force is the main factor. They happen in urban environment not rural.

if you don't care about morality

Depends on morality. This is essentially a trolley problem.

D, if you mean bans like China's "One child policy" are disastrous and terrible and even ineffective. Family planning include incentives too, but they are usually for more children not less. This is because developed countries are faced with declining and older population. Usually a choice of populistic and nationalistic governments that don't consider immigration as an option.

I suspect this is a personality test question rather than an academic exam

Well OP claims he got his marks deducted for his answer, which usually is not a personality test, though he might be just joking.

[u/ColumnK → u/borlaughero]

Your comment on D explains why the previous one said that it infringes upon human rights.

I hadn't considered things like China's policy, just assumed it meant access to contraceptives etc

[u/Ldfzm → u/thefuzzylogic]

If B is the least effective, and C and D have the major drawbacks of infringing on human rights, then I think it's pretty clear that A is the "best" option. Cause something can't be the best option if it has such major drawbacks

[u/thefuzzylogic → u/Ldfzm]

A is the slowest. There may be a time constraint that makes one of the others a better choice.

[u/katerbilla]

Pol Pot wants to have a word with your teacher.

[u/zxchyR]

It's school, every answer is education.

[u/Evanescenceeee]

That's subjective

[u/DerpDaDuck3751]

Honestly, C makes people get slaughtered or flee.

The most approved way of decreasing population

[u/andyring]

Well, "c" and "d" are the same thing actually. Some call it abortion.

Also, "best" is by definition a subjective term, so how could you get negative marks?

[u/gliitch0xFF]

The fact that they even posed it as an option, raises concerns. Like the board were like, yes mass extinction of a population sounds like a good idea to put down on a test. Because 1945 worked out so well. 🙄

[u/TV_series72]

Thanos has entered the chat

[u/roi_is_going_down]

I guess fastest isn’t also best here

[u/Danfior002]

They asked for the best way, not the most ethical way

[u/D0wnVoteMe_PLZ]

C

[u/WinnieLulu]

C might be the fastest but it’s certainly not the best.

[u/Classic_Exchange2118]

What a stupid question

[u/EtiClash]

The problem is that family planning was heavily inforced in lots of places and failed. Worse than failing, people were hiding babies who grown anonymously and poor. I think China had lots of these problems in the past decades and is barely starting to overcome the damage those laws did.

Btw I didn't double check that last part so feel free to @ me

[u/GuyYouMetOnline]

C is, in fact, the only answer to the question as it's actually asked. I think it was trying to ask the best way to decrease population GROWTH, but only C decreases the current population.

[u/borlaughero]

Well, apart from your answer the next most truthful answer is actually B since the massive reduction in fertility rates are tied to urbanization more then anything else. The most correct answer, that is not on the list is globalisation. Womder what that school considers a corect answer.. You should ask your teacher for your money back 😄

[u/YellowRasperry → u/borlaughero]

All of these answers are good answers. There’s also correlation between increased education and reduced fertility.

The “best” answer presented is C because it’s easily controlled and has guaranteed effect.

[u/borlaughero → u/YellowRasperry]

There is a correlation but not causation. You can see what I mean in my reply to another commenter 🍺

EDIT: Oh, sorry, all of these answers may reduce population growth, only C could reduce actual population, and that was the question.

EDIT 2: well if you mean policies like China's abandoned "One child policy", than family planning is terrible answer, especially because it was not proved to be effective and had ton of negative unintended consequences.

[u/YellowRasperry → u/borlaughero]

Haha yeah I guess technically C is the only correct answer the way it was worded. I saw your other response too, solid explanation.

[u/temsik1587againtwo → u/borlaughero]

Globalization isn’t really an actionable thing though.

[u/borlaughero → u/temsik1587againtwo]

I guess you are right. There are things you could do to increase level of globalization, like free trade, or a trade deal... But, yeah, that would be a stretch for a test...

[u/ninjabearshonobi]

I go with A. And don’t ask me why.

[u/RandomExcaliburUmbra → u/ninjabearshonobi]

You’d be kinda right. I got a little bit more suicidal by learning how America’s political system kinda fucks us over. Knowledge sometimes makes you wanna die.

[u/ApprehensivePick2989 → u/RandomExcaliburUmbra]

No: the “correct” answer was probably A because more educated people tend to have fewer children.

[u/cactusprotein → u/ApprehensivePick2989]

Yeah once they learn about the link between sex and pregnancy.

[u/TartarusFalls → u/ApprehensivePick2989]

I was thinking this too, but D is also true? Idk which one is MORE effective though.

[u/I_keep_books]

Quickest =/= best

[u/LollipopLuxray]

Thanos was a hero

[u/GDMFB1]

Educate people? Like get them in soul crushing student loan debt that they have to push back starting a family??? Yup sounds about right.

[u/F-like-rabbits]

WTF test is this from?

[u/Obsidian_Age → u/[deleted]]

'Most effective' and 'quickest' are the same thing.

[u/Hergerbe]

Good old 16 personality’s test

[u/RealMisterG]

Let me know when you get all the stones

[u/_123reddituser_]

I mean, technically yeah, the question says 'the best way' not the 'legal way'

[u/astrorebel]

I know what option Thanos would pick

[u/Even_Passenger661]

Nope. The best way to reduce the population is to divide the country in two, and let them go to war...

[u/borlaughero → u/Even_Passenger661]

Which falls under answer C.

[u/UltraRadiation-X]

So when I post the same thing it not ok but he post it that it ok?

[u/deadlygaming11]

Depends if best is quickest or most ethical. C is best for quickest whilst D is best for ethical

[u/SocksWithSocks]

they didn't specify if it had to be morally correct

[u/Obsidian_Age → u/SocksWithSocks]

I'd argue that C is morally correct.

[u/TheRealLaura789]

Option C sounds like a eugenics problem.

[u/NotPMEG]

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[u/Giulioimpa]

Honestly...useing "best" as a generic substitute for something evidently more specific is just lazy.

[u/thesicksouls]

C seems like the most reasonable choice

[u/Golett03]

You need a short term (C) and long term (D) solution to every problem.

[u/shiroandae]

Asked for best, not most effective.

[u/Singular1st]

To educate

[u/rdrunner_74]

Depends on your goals.

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[u/Mental-Anteater-258]

I mean he’s not wrong

[u/Yaboilinky]

Plot twist, he is in art class

[u/helpmij12]

Dont tell thanos that option c is there

[u/Takhisis6ixty9ine]

Plague

[u/otakumaximum]

Yea ncert on finguretips is weird. And also best of luck for NEET.

[u/necrolich66]

C is wrong because it is a one time thing and can be but a blip in history. Look at covid it killed so much, did not have any effect on the grand scale of things. Black plague and Genghis Khan killed like a third of the population each and see where we are today.

Most recently are the works of ideologies of the 20th century that are used to show how we could plan the mass murder of people in such an easy, quick and horrible way. As much as those are sad stories it has no effect on the large scale of things.

Better education is the number one way to make sure we stop as the human race to procreate as rabbits for not only this generation but all generations to come.

Education prevents more babies than any genocide could eradicate.

TLDR: education kills babies.

[u/paddypantom]

It is C -A -B -D

[u/Burrito_Loyalist]

The problem isn’t family planning.

The problem is people are living longer overall. Old people are living to be 90 years old, that’s why we’re overpopulated.

[u/Living_Heat_7331]

C and D are essentially the same thing considering family planning usually = abortion

[u/poopikon]

Wtf is this question what test is it?

[u/sebas2006167]

That is the only logical option wtf lol.

[u/Casper_Arg]

The best way is clearly to have better houses

- Oh no, population is increasing!

Contractor, craking his knuckles: Not on my watch...

[u/AirRick213]

Thanos has entered the chat.

[u/Zayoodo0o132]

For those curious its D. I think

I got my answer from this vid i watched

https://youtu.be/NMo3nZHVrZ4

[u/celi283]

Say people that pedophilia is sexuality

[u/Polite_Princess_8]

IS THIS BY CHANCE FOR HUMAN GEOGRAPHY???

[u/clark12302]

What the hell? U can take ww2 as a perfect example, Hitler was evil for sure but he did what he wanted to do efficiently.

[u/Wide-Spirit5935-2]

Concentration camps, here we go!

[u/TheRealSlimCoder]

i mean, COVID did a pretty good job of it

[u/frustratedxinc]

Did Bill Burr set the options?

[u/craftycontrarian]

They are asking for the best way, not the most expedient way.

[u/CBDeez]

Aren't all of them valid ways except B?

[u/zombiemusic]

What class was this for?

[u/Someone_Here_Exists]

Statistically after a major Catastrophy the population spikes

[u/VergilArcanis]

I know D is supposed to be the right answer, but C is just so much faster.

Plus, without context of safely or not murdering, C is absolutely the best answer

[u/DieWoelfe → u/VergilArcanis]

D only slows reproduction rate, not decreases the actual population

[u/JorjeXD]

best — not most efficient

[u/Thy_Pie]

Start world war

[u/filthy_leech]

Covid jabs, anyone..? 🤔🤷🏼‍♂️

[u/Wolf_Echo_92]

E) sterilization via injection of randomly selected individuals without their knowledge

[u/El_Smokeo]

Hitler chose the same

[u/SneakAf]

Yes, the 4th options is to be followed after the 3rd is completed. I rest my case.

[u/Hyliandude2]

I’d say that whoever was marking it, lacks vision

[u/jojo_sikeva69]

(e) to ban farming and legalize cannibalism

[u/Dragoncrafter00]

(E) shame people for having children and offer a free service to remove the (burden) from them

[u/jesusmanman]

E) implement communism

[u/cero1399]

Define "best" Fastest? Most humane? Easiest?

[u/icravesimplicity]

Lmao I would've chosen that one too. I can only tell this to my husband, otherwise people think I'm a monster lmao

[u/Neravosa]

If the question was fastest way instead of best way I'd give it to you lol

[u/clintCamp]

If you need to reduce the population the quickest, old age and reducing reproduction are not the best option.

[u/Responsible-Ad-6035]

neuter the males

[u/[deleted]]

Its definitely the most cost effective method and probably the most environmentally sound as long as you used the bodies for composting.

[u/MightySquirddle]

Genocide is only accepted when you control a population by birthrate...duh. #moralpopulationcontrol

[u/Dylman003]

u/repostbot

[u/fallenguardianLR]

E) China

[u/opio77]

Works in stellaris

[u/nir109]

They said best not anything that works

[u/NefariousnessNovel66]

C: One country-- one billion people.

[u/xstofer]

Like this

https://i.imgur.com/17Gm22z.jpg

[u/A-Higher-Being]

What? It's the most effective way?! This dude got robbed

[u/Apartment-Heavy]

C

[u/LeckerBockwurst]

"best" is relative and a bad wording for an exam question. Therefore answer c is technical correct.

It's obvious that the answer 'family planning' is the intended one, which makes the quiz even worse, since anyone who has not been hit with a brick can answer that correctly.