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> Mandate reversible sterilization at birth. This sounds like an absolutely atrocious idea ripe for corruption. It would be only a matter of time before those
by bennettfeely 10y ago
> Mandate reversible sterilization at birth.
This sounds like an absolutely atrocious idea ripe for corruption. It would be only a matter of time before those programs target the poor, those who whose political views, religious views, or ethnic origins are unwanted or inconvenient.
- thehardsphere 10y agoPeople used to do this during the original "Progressive era" im American history. The people who ended up targeted were poor and black. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization
- flocial 10y agoIf you look at current incarceration statistics I'd say it's still happening.
- thehardsphere 10y agoI don't know if it's the same, because I don't know if that's happening with the same sort of pre-meditated malice. Like, I don't think the people behind the incarceration soad "Let's jail all the poor black people" up front, whereas that was the explicit goal of some of these Progressive-era sterilization programs. Then again, the intentions ultimately don't matter if you're on the receiving end of it.
- eternalban 10y agoIf you are willing to go that far, why not "mandate" no robots?
- fwn 10y agoBecause this is the nogo alternative of a false dichotomy designed to support the other presented route.
- Noumenon72 10y agoIn theory we could use food stamps to force people to do things on pain of starvation, but in practice we just do a little bit of drug testing sometimes. Meanwhile, the problems caused by unwanted babies are huge. If we could enact mass sterilization to reverse mass incarceration, the poor and ethnic would be better off even if they did face some discrimination in restoring reproductive access. Not to mention how much better everyone's sex life would be without worrying about kids.
- thehardsphere 10y agoHow about instead of creating this dystopian hellscape where we make foodstamp recipients be sterilized, we simply reform the current welfare system so it stops trapping them in poverty and paying them to have more children? Jesus. It's like some of you sit there and say "the status quo is horrific; let's just add a pinch more horror and everything will be swell."