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Am I the only person who thinks population control policies like this are a great thing? This strange notion people have that they should be able to breed witho
by vectorjohn 11y ago
Am I the only person who thinks population control policies like this are a great thing? This strange notion people have that they should be able to breed without bound is baffling to me.
People talk about the dangers of overpopulation as if they're theoretical. They're not, numbers don't lie. At some point people have to stop having babies, whether humanely by a government mandate, or by the inhumanity of war and poverty.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoYou're not the only one. I'm in that camp too. Yes, I can imagine perfectly well the happiness a parent gets from having a child, and maybe I will want to have a child of my own in the future. Nobody says we can't breed. When the population levels off, everyone will be able to have two children. If you want more, then there's only one solution - push harder for science and technology, so that we may use our resources in a more efficient way (Earth has a lot of carrying capacity on the surface, and we haven't even begin to colonize oceans). And then we may move to other planets. But people need to grow up and realize they're not free to do anything they like, not yet. Freedom to breed is just another one we need to collectively decide to restrict for now. And then, like with every other coordination problem, you have to punish the defectors, because coordination is not a statically stable state.