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:: The murder rate (per 100.000 per year) in USA is 5. Germany has 0.7. USA has vast areas with low population numbers therefore a second look at cities is helpful. [[wp:List of cities by homicide rate|Detroit has a murder rate of 40]] while [[wp:de:Tötungsrate_nach_Ländern#Liste_der_Tötungsraten_2013_für_ausgewählte_Großstädte|Berlin has 1]]. | :: The murder rate (per 100.000 per year) in USA is 5. Germany has 0.7. USA has vast areas with low population numbers therefore a second look at cities is helpful. [[wp:List of cities by homicide rate|Detroit has a murder rate of 40]] while [[wp:de:Tötungsrate_nach_Ländern#Liste_der_Tötungsraten_2013_für_ausgewählte_Großstädte|Berlin has 1]]. | ||
::The obvious interpretation is that availability of weapons creates crimes out of an existing potential of violence. Therefore it should be task of politics to ensure social freedom by improving financial security (“minimum wage”), health insurance, integration of migrants, refugees and ex-inmates, and strongly promote education, so that the mentality of insecurity and hence the desire to own weapons – and therefore the potential misuse of 3D printers – is greatly reduced. | ::The obvious interpretation is that availability of weapons creates crimes out of an existing potential of violence. Therefore it should be task of politics to ensure social freedom by improving financial security (“minimum wage”), health insurance, integration of migrants, refugees and ex-inmates, and strongly promote education, so that the mentality of insecurity and hence the desire to own weapons – and therefore the potential misuse of 3D printers – is greatly reduced. | ||
:* [[wp:Organ_printing|Bioprinting]] a.k.a. tissue engineering (boosted by [[wp:Telomere|telomere regeneration]], [[Bertram_Navarre# | :* [[wp:Organ_printing|Bioprinting]] a.k.a. tissue engineering (boosted by [[wp:Telomere|telomere regeneration]], [[Bertram_Navarre#Will_reality_soon_outrun_fiction.3F|cell conversion]]) (problems: biological immortality, overpopulation, potential social destabilization) | ||
:** True reason why biological immortality is not intended: it is simply difficult to maintain because very cost-intensive. | :** True reason why biological immortality is not intended: it is simply difficult to maintain because very cost-intensive. | ||
:** Conspiracy theory, [[Manual#Tech_Note_1|Hanna]]: The World Coalition Government realizes the extent of the ecological damage and has the ability to reverse a lot of it but has decided not to. It is in their best interest to maintain the centralization of wealth so the large population centers are preserved while "third world" regions are not. As a bonus the mounting death toll solves some of their overpopulation problems. (In that context Hanna also believes the WCG is doing less than it could to improve public healthcare.) | :** Conspiracy theory, [[Manual#Tech_Note_1|Hanna]]: The World Coalition Government realizes the extent of the ecological damage and has the ability to reverse a lot of it but has decided not to. It is in their best interest to maintain the centralization of wealth so the large population centers are preserved while "third world" regions are not. As a bonus the mounting death toll solves some of their overpopulation problems. (In that context Hanna also believes the WCG is doing less than it could to improve public healthcare.) | ||