Originally Posted by
CommanderFun
If people start starving, a LOT of shit is going to happen to them. Look at what is going on in Sri Lanka. Don't get me wrong, the violent uprising won't necessarily lead to something good (see: French Revolution, Russian Revolution), but intentionally starving the populace is suicide for the upper class of society. People won't be able to just wave away their need to eat (like they can wave away their civil liberties for a feeling of "safety"), and the desperation that comes from hunger can make people really fucking wild. It certainly does that with animals. Couple that with people being so unfamiliar with it, they won't have a tolerance level for it. People aren't going to think, "it's okay I'm starving to death, it's for the greater good." No amount of patronizing elites trying to convince them of that is going to override their sense of self preservation.