{"id":291,"date":"2007-04-01T23:33:21","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T18:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2007\/04\/01\/cull-the-kids-instead\/"},"modified":"2007-04-01T23:33:21","modified_gmt":"2007-04-01T18:03:21","slug":"cull-the-kids-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/01\/cull-the-kids-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Cull the Kids Instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right. These days the BMP is klling stray dogs. This has a lot of animal lovers unhappy, leading to many anguished blogposts (two examples <a href=\"http:\/\/bluelullaby.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/vegetarianism-and-why-you-dont-kick.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingcave.com\/proving-again-how-savage-we-are\/\">here<\/a>). And inevitably these posts attract commentors who shrilly and hysterically go &#8216;But don&#8217;t you know that stray dogs are killing children? Are you more worried about dogs or children?&#8217; Practically the only thing missing is the actual statement &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_recurring_characters_from_The_Simpsons#Helen_Lovejoy\">Will someone please think of the <em>children<\/em>?<\/a>&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>So I have the solution. After all I&#8217;m naturally brilliant. Rather than culling dogs, let the BMP cull kids who stray into public spaces instead.<\/p>\n<p>This solution pleases everyone. Animal lovers will get to see Bangalore&#8217;s stray dogs gamboling wild and free. And with no kids on the streets, there will be no attacks on them by dogs either. And the BMP will surely kill the kids more humanely than it is killing the dogs.<\/p>\n<p>Fewer children will also have beneficial downstream effects. To start with, it will reduce pressure on the strained and overburdened education system. Systematic culling will eventually attenuate the supply of students so much that there will no longer be a constraint in the number of university seats. Nobody will be tense about their board exams any more. With seats going free, reservations will also cease to be contentious. In fact, with no new generations to perpetuate it, the caste system itself will cease to exist.<\/p>\n<p>And you thought that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2007\/03\/16\/my-new-ngo\/\">Kansa Society<\/a> was only about ensuring peace and quiet in restaurants and public transport. Piffle. Our agenda will transform the whole world into a paradise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right. These days the BMP is klling stray dogs. This has a lot of animal lovers unhappy, leading to many anguished blogposts (two examples here and here). And inevitably these posts attract commentors who shrilly and hysterically go &#8216;But don&#8217;t you know that stray dogs are killing children? Are you more worried about dogs or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangalore","category-kansa-society"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-4H","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}