(June 30, 2015 at 11:53 am)Yeauxleaux Wrote: No steralization means taking away someone's physical ability to have kids. Promoting contraception, introducing higher taxes for people with more kids and even China's One Child Policy (although yes, there are other problems with this) aren't "sterilization", it's encouraging people not to overpopulate the world.
Out of curiosity what is the result of sterilization? Could we say the policy of encouragement above lead to a similar effect as sterilization (though admittedly not the same means)? If so may we say the encouragement so stated is "effectively" the same as sterilization without actually being sterilization?
(June 30, 2015 at 11:53 am)Yeauxleaux Wrote: Something has to be done to curb our population growth without killing or steralizing people. It's not ecologically sustainable to have this many people.
Correction. it is not ecologically sustainable to have this many people consume as people in the United States and Europe do. So our options are to change our consumption (fuck that!) or to decrease the amount of people who will consume as we will (by encouraged effective sterilization). So be it. But the nature of life is it is a numbers game!! Always have been and always will be.
(June 30, 2015 at 11:53 am)Yeauxleaux Wrote: China's One Child Policy has a lot of issues that need to be worked on, such as female infanticide, it's far from a perfect system and there are good arguments to call it overly austere. But what you can say for China is that at least it has recognised the problem and has made some attempt at addressing it.
Wait! What is wrong with female infanticide? The women have the right to choose the children they want and decreasing the amount of females in the world will be far more effective at decreasing the overpopulation of the planet than decreasing the amount of men.
Also as expressed to me by my Chinese co-worker. People do not understand the chinese one child policy. What it means is one child has everything paid for by the government while any others are at the parents expense. Unlike in the united states where every child is at the parents expense, including the first child.