Putting Gaza on a Diet

[Jasper]

Yeah, I'd really prefer it if humanity had a common enemy that couldn't be reasoned with.

I take it you aren't counting humanity as fitting that description?

see also, "Goddammit"

Re: The OP though, that's tragic.  Fucking monsters.

[Telarus]

According to the novel my 11yr old is reading for English class ("The Hunger Games"), this is simply step 1 in an ingenious plot of population control.

Step 2: Once the populous has been accustomed to artificial food scarcity, start a 'lottery' among the pubescent children.

Step 3: These chosen children then fight it out, Battle Royale style, for extra food rations for their home vilalge.

Step 4: Children's names are put in to the lottery x1 @ 14 yrs old, x2 @ 15, x3 @ 16, x4 @ 17 and Five times for 18. Survive to 18? You're out.

Step 5:   

[Jenne]

According to the novel my 11yr old is reading for English class ("The Hunger Games"), this is simply step 1 in an ingenious plot of population control.

Step 2: Once the populous has been accustomed to artificial food scarcity, start a 'lottery' among the pubescent children.

Step 3: These chosen children then fight it out, Battle Royale style, for extra food rations for their home vilalge.

Step 4: Children's names are put in to the lottery x1 @ 14 yrs old, x2 @ 15, x3 @ 16, x4 @ 17 and Five times for 18. Survive to 18? You're out.

Step 5:   

What the fuuuuuck?

Wow.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

The Robber's Cave experiment suggests one easy way to solve a two-sided conflict: give them a third party to fight against, together.

To this end, I suggest the USA invade and put Israel and the Occupied Territories under the sovereignty of the Vatican, and encourage the Nazi Pope to rule with an iron fist.

Problem comes back when the war is over. Sometimes intensifies, like what happened between the US and USSR

[Telarus]

According to the novel my 11yr old is reading for English class ("The Hunger Games"), this is simply step 1 in an ingenious plot of population control.

Step 2: Once the populous has been accustomed to artificial food scarcity, start a 'lottery' among the pubescent children.

Step 3: These chosen children then fight it out, Battle Royale style, for extra food rations for their home vilalge.

Step 4: Children's names are put in to the lottery x1 @ 14 yrs old, x2 @ 15, x3 @ 16, x4 @ 17 and Five times for 18. Survive to 18? You're out.

Step 5:    

What the fuuuuuck?

Wow.

The novel is set in post apocalyptic N America, but the 'centralized government preventing further rebellion by the districts on the fringes by enforcing artificial food scarcity' immediately jumped out at me.

And come-on, if this was seriously proposed by some higher-ups in the Israeli government, there would actually be people willing to argue _for_ it.

[Jasper]

I'm getting tired of the information age.  There are simply too many really bad ideas available to the common man for anyone's good.

[Requia ☣]

The Robber's Cave experiment suggests one easy way to solve a two-sided conflict: give them a third party to fight against, together.

To this end, I suggest the USA invade and put Israel and the Occupied Territories under the sovereignty of the Vatican, and encourage the Nazi Pope to rule with an iron fist.

Problem comes back when the war is over. Sometimes intensifies, like what happened between the US and USSR

A zombie apocalypse may not ever end, at best you could contain it.  Depends on the type I suppose.

[Telarus]

According to the novel my 11yr old is reading for English class ("The Hunger Games"), this is simply step 1 in an ingenious plot of population control.

Step 2: Once the populous has been accustomed to artificial food scarcity, start a 'lottery' among the pubescent children.

Step 3: These chosen children then fight it out, Battle Royale style, for extra food rations for their home vilalge.

Step 4: Children's names are put in to the lottery x1 @ 14 yrs old, x2 @ 15, x3 @ 16, x4 @ 17 and Five times for 18. Survive to 18? You're out.

Step 5:    

What the fuuuuuck?

Wow.

The novel is set in post apocalyptic N America, but the 'centralized government preventing further rebellion by the districts on the fringes by enforcing artificial food scarcity' immediately jumped out at me.

And come-on, if this was seriously proposed by some higher-ups in the Israeli government, there would actually be people willing to argue _for_ it.

I'll also note that there are probably some people in our own gvt who would as well.

[Telarus]

The Robber's Cave experiment suggests one easy way to solve a two-sided conflict: give them a third party to fight against, together.

To this end, I suggest the USA invade and put Israel and the Occupied Territories under the sovereignty of the Vatican, and encourage the Nazi Pope to rule with an iron fist.

Problem comes back when the war is over. Sometimes intensifies, like what happened between the US and USSR

A zombie apocalypse may not ever end, at best you could contain it.  Depends on the type I suppose.

My favoritest zombie scenario involves the whole earth infected (except maybe, boreneo, andes, etc), and most of humanity surviving by launching haphazard space craft ans savaging the tech already floating up there into inhabitable biomes and living space. Of course, when half your hydroponics lab is out-dated russian tech, you're going to have to go back planetside for spare parts.

This is where the PCs step in. Logistics of landing a re-orbital craft, defending it long enough for a raiding team to get what they came for, and then boost back to orbit is a key game mecanic.

It was called "Raid Earth"

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

The Robber's Cave experiment suggests one easy way to solve a two-sided conflict: give them a third party to fight against, together.

To this end, I suggest the USA invade and put Israel and the Occupied Territories under the sovereignty of the Vatican, and encourage the Nazi Pope to rule with an iron fist.

Problem comes back when the war is over. Sometimes intensifies, like what happened between the US and USSR

A zombie apocalypse may not ever end, at best you could contain it.  Depends on the type I suppose.

My favoritest zombie scenario involves the whole earth infected (except maybe, boreneo, andes, etc), and most of humanity surviving by launching haphazard space craft ans savaging the tech already floating up there into inhabitable biomes and living space. Of course, when half your hydroponics lab is out-dated russian tech, you're going to have to go back planetside for spare parts.

This is where the PCs step in. Logistics of landing a re-orbital craft, defending it long enough for a raiding team to get what they came for, and then boost back to orbit is a key game mecanic.

It was called "Raid Earth"

Sounds awesome!

[Cain]

I heard about those books from an IR professor I correspond with occasionally.  She said despite the marketing that these are "young adult" novels, they're really not, and quite interesting as well.