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[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

i think murder is already illegal

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

There should be, but I expect the unintended consequence is a severe drop in birth rate.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The unintended consequence is genocide. When people need permission to reproduce that introduces a convenient method to keep certain people from having kids.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

I think that's the point.

There are some people who just definitely don't have the wherewithal to be parents. They can barely look after themselves, often they don't look after themselves.

Part of the test would be to ask if you plan to name your kid after a Game Of Thrones character.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

~~unintended consequence~~ desirable effect

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not always. See Japan and Korea, for instance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Let's hope they figure out how to reduce population gracefully. It's important to save the planet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The problem is not reducing population, it's to have our economic system be able to cope with population reduction instead of just collapsing. Do you think we have any hope of changing it for the better?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Do you think we have any hope of changing it for the better?

We do by working towards post scarcity and transitioning away from capitalism

And if they try to stop it we force the transitioning

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

We could also just move to space, we have the tech to start this process

[–] derpgon -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

How is that bad? Less pollution and garbage, no need for as much housing (thus dropping house prices), no need for as many stores, vehicles, resources.

And less shitty parents, less homeless people, less crime. I see that as an absolute win.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

It TOTALLY won't be structured in a way to keep people of certain classes unrelated to child rearing ability from essentially reproducing at all.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And this is why we can't have nice ~~things~~ democracy.

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

https://time.com/4192760/hitler-munich-excerpt/

[–] derpgon -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It was almost 100 years ago, but yeah, everything leads to Hitler eventually.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No... no. Not everything, but rhetoric like in your comment.

You're literally cheering on eugenics, with a false hope of what it would achieve.

[–] derpgon 0 points 6 months ago

Alright, I should have prefaced this with "I assume society is working, there is no racism, corruption, non-cis non-hetero people have sufficient rights, and the government is working as intended."

Of course, unfeasible right now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There is no need, birthrates are already falling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

But the ones breeding shouldn't be...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Now do whatnow!? Are we still doing phrasing? That still a thing?