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Originally Posted by DixieGal
So I see restrictions on numbers of children per family as barbaric.
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I don't think barbaric is the right word, barbaric means primitive, something born out of intelligent planning and foresight isn't primitive.
But you could call it a faschist act. As in imposing on personal rights in the name of the good of the whole.
And I, who am otherwise a complete liberal, would support this faschist act which limits human rights, the
ONLY such exception I would ever accept.
Because democracy means that anyone can do anything they want unless it hurts someone else's rights (like shooting someone in the head hurts their right to live), and having 10 children hurts the rights of everyone on the planet to a decent life (including the children themselves and their parents). So the logical thing to do would be to restrict the number of children to a reasonable number (like 3, taking into account the people who don't want to or can't have kids or die young that would keep the population at a constant level).
So why isn't this rational logical policy already implemented around the world ? Simply because people think human reproduction is something utterly personal and out of the reach of the state, which has the right only to proscribe the proper behaviour in society, not in personal life. But that attitude needs to change.
But then again you don't need population control in most developed countries because it's not growing (very fast).
The best short-term step would probably be to organize a massive pro-contraception campaign in India and Africa. And screw the pope's preachings !