I was just running some numbers. If 20 million men had died in World War I, that was about three generations ago, so if the average man had 2.3 children, that would mean approximately 46 million children didn't get born after the first generation.
The second generation would make another 105 million unborns, and the third generation would make it 243 million.
If 50 million men lost their lives in WW II, which was two generations ago, that would mean 115 million people the first generation and another 254 million unborns the second, leaving us with an approximate total of 507 million unborns in the last century alone, not including the Korean, Vietnam, and the lesser skirmishes and battles along the way since.
And how many wars have there been in the past 2,000 years? The real question is, how many of those unborns could have been another Einstein, Tesla, Edison, Ford, Rockefeller, or another genious that could have contributed to the betterment of the world.
If properly done, these calculations would probably result in a number of humans that were never born because of wars alone coming close to somewhere around 200 billion, enough to populate the whole solar system.
There will be a method to whatever madness there must be in the perceptions of the public which will eventually lift society to a higher ground of sanity. So how good is war?
How many pennies do you have and where do you live?
Wonder how many US pennies 260,000 people around the world could collect in a week?
