In this thread by Mr. Silverback, we see China bemoaning the lack of wives. They have brain drain and not enough wives for all. (Also they have a heart and kidney drain, too, a subject for elsewhere.) Such are the unintended consequences of managed population.
According to its Academy of Social Sciences, China “suffers from the world’s most severe brain drain.” Approximately two-thirds of the Chinese who have studied abroad in the past two decades did not return home.
The BBC offered many possible explanations for this drain: the lack of opportunities at home; a lack of freedom, especially after Tiananmen Square, and a preference for the Western “lifestyle.”
One factor that was not mentioned but should have been was a concern about spending the rest of your life alone.
Busting on One: The Dark Side of Population Control
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For most religious people, the use of stem cells hinges on a philosophical question: When does a cell become human?
The answer often is - at the moment of conception, when egg and sperm meet.
Mormons, however, have a slightly different understanding of the connection between bodies and souls that could open the door for stem-cell research without compromising their ethics, said Rick Jepson on Thursday at the annual Sunstone Symposium, an independent forum for Mormon thought that continues today at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Salt Lake City.
Nurse: LDS beliefs open door to stem-cell research
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