What if you couldn’t save everybody? This is a hypothetical question found in the “lifeboat game” and often designed in our day to persuade people into accepting the notion that some lives are less valuable than others and therefore expendable. The origins of the game itself in 1974 can be attributed to ecologist Garrett Hardin, whose purposes were not to promote the situation ethics of Joseph Fletcher in individual cases, but rather to illustrate the dangers of a population explosion and promote his notions on how to implement coercive world-wide population control. There is a connection between the two, however, as Planned Parenthood and many advocates of birth control also support Population Control. Hardin wrote: