(July 12, 2015 at 2:49 pm)Dystopia Wrote: Assuming this is an extreme case scenario, I guess I could accept restricting the number of children people can have, but State of Emergency would have to be declared to ensure the government can't take away any more rights than those absolutely necessary
But this would inevitably lead to infanticide and other sorts of practices that people would use to hide the fact that they are having more than the allowed number of children... Wouldn't it? This already happens in China where there is a one-child policy -and sex-preferences for children, but who's to say that there wouldn't be sex-selective infanticide in the future? If only men are sterilized there might be a "need" for more men so boys would be kept. Or girls become seen as the sex more likely to live better quality lives (if they aren't forcibly sterilized like the men) so they girls are kept...
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Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.