There can be also some sort of spell that will bring people from parallel universe or another world (Dimensional Gate or something like it). Of course war is always destructive on population but population is always finding its own way of survival too, so it may be easy to kill some of the population but to kill all population is a bit too much and unrealistic. Heck, in our own history towns and villages have been razed to the ground and there always would be survivors. So I think that, at the moment, rate of population destruction is way off scales.
Lower taxes would probably lead to more babies
and that would lead to more population. So it would help population growth just not instantly. As it is now, lower taxes have no effect at all on population.
I guess I vote for population instead of Death.
[ September 25, 2003, 20:14: Message edited by: Daynarr ]