I did some (very) rough math on this, and I'm pretty sure cats would be extinct if a kitten died for each time a human masturbated.
I don't know what the numbers are for the rest of the world, but the housecat population in the United States is around 60 million, which is roughly a tenth of the human population here. I don't know how I'd figure in mortality rates, but I think that at least ten percent of the human population will masturbate on a given day, and the numbers don't seem to work out for the species surviving that situation.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
You're assuming, of course, that God doesn't kill kittens for people masturbating.
If the numbers we see now are what's left over after the great wank-purges, then that would mean that masturbation is, in fact, keeping the population in check, and stopping it all together would result in the planet being overrun by Felis catus.
As I said, I wasn't sure how to figure in mortality rates, but if you're right, at any given day there would be more fresh cat corpses than the current population. That would be an astounding rate of reproduction.
Yeah, I know that wasn't serious, but I think the actual scale of this is amusingly large enough that understating it is a bit of a waste.
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i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis