I know the cure for all human ailments!

Yep, just what the title says. I have discovered the elegant and simple means by which all human ailments from AIDS to the common cold can be eradicated once and forever. I don’t know what this hasn’t been thought of before–it’s so simple, really.

Wanna know what it is?

Abstinence. That’s right, abstinence. Not for a week or two, or even for a year. Abstinence, on a global scale, for 80 years. If everybody plays along this is a guaranteed fix. No more AIDS, no more colds, no more poverty–nothing that plagues humanity today will exist if we can all just agree to “take one for the team” and abstain from sex. And it doesn’t even have to be total abstinence! We just need to keep penises (and turkey baster-wielding scientists) away from vaginas for 80 years.

Wouldn’t guns be faster?

Sounds a little slow, but it might work. And I’ve got the cure for bad haircuts: just lop your head off!

Not only that, but if everyone does it we will also have cured every other problem afflicting humanity! Brilliant!

This reminds me of a thread on Compuserve long, long ago that sticks in my memory. An exchange went like this (each line below was written by a different person, not part of the same post):

People have to realize that sex causes death.

It also causes life!

Which is invariably fatal.

Helluva migraine solution, too.

I’ve heard of a similar proposal to facilitate peace in the Middle East…something about turning all the sand into glass.

I think my wife has been working towards that solution for years now! :wink: