RE: Should poor people have kids?
November 29, 2019 at 6:15 am
(This post was last modified: November 29, 2019 at 6:27 am by Apathyst.)
Being new here and trying my damnedest not to be the snarky noob but the question presented seems no different than asking if fat people should be allowed to eat or should clumsy people be allowed to ski basically should everyone be required to prove the financial ability to not burden society in order to engage in any activity. The question is not or should not be should the poor be allowed to have kids but rather by what right can we prohibit them. The entire point of joining together into societies is that we all benefit. For the fortunate to consider regulating to less fortunate then they disassociate from society and are much more costly to deal with as a criminal underclass. Wouldn’t it be better to ask what are we doing wrong as a society that poor exist? How have we failed? How can we reduce the unequal distribution of resources? Rather than should we let the poor have kids. I’m curious if the answer turns out to be in the negative what will a society that criminalizes poor people who have babies look like? Would you want to live in it if you were behind a rawlsian veil and couldn’t know what your status would be in that society? But that’s just me. I’ll sit back and take my lumps now I guess...
I mean if we are going by strict cost benefit analysis should we not ask whether 1% of our population should be allowed to hoard 99% of the wealth? (Percentages are for illustrative purposes only and not asserted as absolutely accurate)(and no, nobody ever became the top one percent from hard work. You make a million you got lucky but you make a billion and you appropriated a ton of the value of the labor of others.. )
I mean if we are going by strict cost benefit analysis should we not ask whether 1% of our population should be allowed to hoard 99% of the wealth? (Percentages are for illustrative purposes only and not asserted as absolutely accurate)(and no, nobody ever became the top one percent from hard work. You make a million you got lucky but you make a billion and you appropriated a ton of the value of the labor of others.. )