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I don’t want to live in a society where someone can establish an ideal population size. Free humans making their decision one birth at a time establish populat
by r3trohack3r 5y ago
I don’t want to live in a society where someone can establish an ideal population size.
Free humans making their decision one birth at a time establish population sizes.
- DFHippie 5y agoThere's a difference between deciding an ideal population size and enforcing it. Also, there are different ways of enforcing it, many involving little that we would term coercion: establishing child tax credits, for example; funding schools and healthcare via mechanisms which make raising children more or less burdensome. Free people can react to these incentives via their own free choice while society at large, acting as a collective of free people, decide what these incentives should be. The incentives established by other people's choices are inevitable unless you want to go live like the Martian.
- cbshsjsh 5y agoI am totally okay with free humans making their own decisions but I don’t want to financially support their decisions. I believe if society collectively pay for someone’s kids schooling or other expenses then society should be able to determine what is ideal number of children and punish (financially) those who take more than their fair share.
- mattigames 5y agoI don't want to live in a society that expands without limits and causes its own destruction in a few centuries instead of one that could live many millenniums if it figured out not to self-destroy by unbounded replication; but hey different strokes for different folks.