College student jerry says disease, natural disasters, and even war serve a greater purpose. his friends say his views are offensive, and jerry replies, "but i’m a malthusian! " along with thomas malthus, jerry believes that the benefit of problems that wipe out large number of humans is that:

the decreased pressure on the food supply reduces starvation and misery or the decrease demand on limited resources reduces starvation and poverty.

Explanation:

The natural decrease of population that occurs when there are natural disasters according to Malthus is a great advantage in reducing a demand that an ever increasing population puts on limited resources.

Malthus calls this a positive check because he believes we need some sort of intervention if we don't want to face a situation whereby we will end up outstripping the available resources or face a situation where the available resources can't meet our needs or can't cover the available number of population.

the rebels’ chances of victory at lexington & concord were fairly slim, given the fact that most of them very untrained and they were up against the world's greatest military force.  

no because it could make the world a terrible place to live in.