# How would mankind organise a future cull

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**Created:** [July 11, 2019, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-mankind-organise-a-future-cull/836893 "2019-07-11T07:20:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 19, 2019, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-mankind-organise-a-future-cull/836893/61 "2019-07-19T00:59:30Z")

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[Logan’s Run](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan%27s_Run)

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> The seeds of the Little War were planted in a restless summer during the mid-1960s, with sit-ins and student demonstrations as youth tested its strength. By the early 1970s over 75 percent of the people living on Earth were under twenty-one years of age. The population continued to climb—and with it the youth percentage.  
> In the 1980s the figure was 79.7 percent.  
> In the 1990s, 82.4 percent.  
> In the year 2000—critical mass.
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> In the world of 2116, a person’s maximum age is strictly legislated: 21 years, to the day. When people reach this Lastday they report to a Sleepshop in which they are willingly executed via a pleasure-inducing toxic gas.

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