• Human population control - Should this practice be enforced?
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[QUOTE=sonerin;36895999]Then I guess another system should be brought up. I'm just bringing up the idea of birth control, I guess the government would find a way to solve the 4th birth or more. A large fine, I guess.[/QUOTE] that sounds a bit excessive. that would just be fucking people over who already have enough financial problems to deal with considering the number of children they're raising. having four kids is enough of an inconvenience in itself. there's no surefire way to control population that isn't ethically questionable. however, we can promote the use of protection during sex and provide better sex education in schools. as was mentioned earlier, women pursuing higher education often wait until later in life to have kids - even improving the quality of primary/secondary schools and encouraging students to pursue further education would indirectly help with this sort of issue.
[QUOTE=Guy Mannly;36895904]most adoption agencies carefully screen potential adopters to determine whether they have personalities suitable to be parents. requiring all parents adopt children before having their own kid could just land more adopted kids in abusive families. not only that but that would mean the adoption agency giving most of the kids to parents who have never raised a child before.[/QUOTE] Good point, maybe the ratio between suitable/potentially suitable parents, bad parents and the vast amount of children without parents has gone out of control. So yeah, the law wouldn't require random people to adopt a child.. That kind of complicated things already so I'll leave the law at that. But what are you implying with the 2nd part, that soon-to-become parents couldn't have learned everything about good parenting before they became parents? Because you can learn to be a good potential parent through both good AND also bad parenting.
Sorry, I haven't read any previous posts, but I think we should eradicate all mentally challenged people. They're just such a waste of space and they need SO MANY THINGS to simply STAY ALIVE! The world would have so much more money if some of it hadn't been spent on kids w/ down syndrome, autism, etc. Rate late and move on if this topic has already been discussed.
[QUOTE=Gekkosan;36921247]Good point, maybe the ratio between suitable/potentially suitable parents, bad parents and the vast amount of children without parents has gone out of control. So yeah, the law wouldn't require random people to adopt a child.. That kind of complicated things already so I'll leave the law at that. But what are you implying with the 2nd part, that soon-to-become parents couldn't have learned everything about good parenting before they became parents? Because you can learn to be a good potential parent through both good AND also bad parenting.[/QUOTE] while it's entirely possible for them to do their research on parenting beforehand, i just don't think adoption agencies would be too happy about most of the adopters being people new to parenting who are only adopting a child because of an obligation to the law, instead of their own choice. [QUOTE=18;36923281]Sorry, I haven't read any previous posts, but I think we should eradicate all mentally challenged people. They're just such a waste of space and they need SO MANY THINGS to simply STAY ALIVE! The world would have so much more money if some of it hadn't been spent on kids w/ down syndrome, autism, etc. Rate late and move on if this topic has already been discussed.[/QUOTE] troll? or just deaded's alt account?
[QUOTE=Guy Mannly;36923312]troll? or just deaded's alt account?[/QUOTE] Just report and move on.
[QUOTE=Jacknife;36626017][img]http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/094/6/8/combine_logo_for_city18_comic_by_renerdecastro-d3d74w7.png[/img][/QUOTE] Actually, if Combines did come to earth, would it really be that bad? I mean lets pretend that combines weren't the bad guys for a second, but aliens that took over the goverment part of earth. So really, Combines would be like protectors, instead of, you know, evil guys.
Free markets enforce a much more efficient population control than any government regulation, while staying ethical and respecting individual liberties.
[QUOTE=Black Milano;36924881]Free markets enforce a much more efficient population control than any government regulation, while staying ethical and respecting individual liberties.[/QUOTE] Education and women's rights does a lot more for population control than free markets do.
[QUOTE=metalhand;36923500]Actually, if Combines did come to earth, would it really be that bad? I mean lets pretend that combines weren't the bad guys for a second, but aliens that took over the goverment part of earth. So really, Combines would be like protectors, instead of, you know, evil guys.[/QUOTE] The Combine was at [B]best[/B] a completely uncaring malevolent organization that was simply out to strip the Earth of every possible resource, and at worst was openly attempting the outright extinction of Humanity. We were just another race to be processed, it's planet converted into useful resources to ship off-world, and it's citizens converted into mindless soldiers. They're "bad guys" through and through, there's not really any room to imply they're actually kind. Even [I]if[/I] we assume for a moment that they're simply aliens that took over the government (which sorta makes them less then Combine at this point,) they're a horribly totalitarian organization that has a total lack of empathy for it's citizenry, being less citizens and simply "more resources to consume."
[QUOTE=Valnar;36925432]Education and women's rights does a lot more for population control than free markets do.[/QUOTE] It's a symbiotic relation between the two.
Population control is something already taking place. What do you guys plan to do about it?
[QUOTE=Lazor;34038073]lmao yes let's have population control even though population growth naturally declines in pretty much every developed country[/QUOTE] The salient point here is not population control in developed countries, where individual citizens have much more economic output but in the global periphery, where the average citizen mostly hangs around and curses the white man.
[QUOTE=barraclogh;36944907]The salient point here is not population control in developed countries, where individual citizens have much more economic output but in the global periphery, where the average citizen mostly hangs around and curses the white man.[/QUOTE] Ok then, the solution to population control is to let those countries naturally develop on their own. Population models already show that global population is most likely going to reach its peak and then start declining this century.
[QUOTE=Valnar;36946249]Ok then, the solution to population control is to let those countries naturally develop on their own. Population models already show that global population is most likely going to reach its peak and then start declining this century.[/QUOTE] Exactly. Like halting food aid.
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