Plus the erosion of the well-meant edict above, as the healing magic works a Victorian India effect (beneficial knowledge and effort reduces the death rate, but contraception is impious and discussion of the subject is obscene: By Kipling’s day India already had the population we in the USA would not see for another century, and by then over a billion people had turned India into a giant latrine…)
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Date: 2019-05-07 01:03 am (UTC)Plus the erosion of the well-meant edict above, as the healing magic works a Victorian India effect (beneficial knowledge and effort reduces the death rate, but contraception is impious and discussion of the subject is obscene: By Kipling’s day India already had the population we in the USA would not see for another century, and by then over a billion people had turned India into a giant latrine…)
https://slate.com/tag/trying-really-hard-to-like-india
“Create food” becomes a stark daily necessity for millions who would do so anyway, albeit “create Soylent Green”…!