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Re:The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion by laichzeit0 on Monday June 01, 2015 @02:11PM (#9640848)
I've always maintained that breeding needs to be licensed. You need a license to drive, own a firearm, hell in some countries you need a license to own a goddamned TV. A breeding license with forced sterilization and tax penalties for non-compliance would eliminate this problem in a complete fair and equitable way.
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Re:The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion by oldmanjay on Monday June 01, 2015 @02:13PM (#9640857)
It's not often you can put "forced sterilization" and "completely fair" in the same sentence and be correct. In my opinion, you didn't pull it off here.
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Re:The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion by guard-of-terra on Monday June 01, 2015 @02:40PM (#9641086)
There's a huge hole in your logic: countries where law is upheld already have reproduction rate lower than needed to stabilize.

And most of overpopulation is in countries where law is... episodic.

Imagine "tax penalties" in Kongo or Nigeria where people live off ground on less than 2$/day. Funny.

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Re:The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion by laichzeit0 on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @02:18AM (#9644187)
That's why I inserted the clause "forced sterilization". How do you stop someone from having a family of 5-7 children who's dirt poor, uneducated and believes it's part of their culture to be "prosperous" through progeny?
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Re:The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion by ars on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @02:59AM (#9644325)
You are trying to solve a non-existent problem.

Not only is that pointless, your solution wouldn't even work if the problem did exist.

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Re:The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion by laichzeit0 on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @03:24AM (#9651073)
You clearly have not lived in Africa if you think it's a non-existent problem.
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Re:The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion by Bostonian on Monday June 01, 2015 @04:32PM (#9641936)
When someone from the government comes to your home to have you sterilized against your will, you have the right to resist by any means necessary.
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