Re:Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity
by matthewdgreen on Thursday December 10, 2020 @06:47AM
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Are you sure you’re disagreeing with the parent poster? It sounds to me like you’ve just outlined a plan to achieve the same goal.
Re:Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity
by mschuster91 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @09:37AM
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The parent poster advocated for a one-child policy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25372090
Re:Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity
by Chris2048 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @08:11AM
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> "Population management" is a road leading
You can say that about anything: socialist policies, "no-tolerance" policies, anything that looks like censorship.
You say there have been many such example, then trot out Nazi Germany; The fact the Nazis purposefully initiated a genocide (the holocaust) out of hatred out the Jews undermines the suggestion that there was a genuine attempt at population management.
Chinas also has a pretty poor human rights example, aside from it's 1-child policy.
Do you have any example of a modern (first-world, developed) country with a good human-rights record, and QOL index pursuing population management?
"Population management" is a road leading straight to ethical catastrophes, to murder and other horrible forms of suffering. There have been many of these - genocides, "Lebensraum im Osten" aka Nazi Germany invading Eastern Europe, the Holocaust, China's "1 child policy".
The best way a society can handle population management is fact-based sex education and safe, cheap access to contraceptives and medical abortion, and general access to healthcare and a social security network so that people don't have to have half a dozen children if they want one or two to survive to adulthood and care for them at old age.