China's 'One Child' Rule
In 1979 it was decreed in China that, due to overpopulation, Chinese people were allowed no more than one child. What do you think?
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If you're so against it, then please, by all means, come up with a solution for the hundreds of millions of children that you'd have to feed, house, educate, entertain, etc. Until then, please shut the fuck up about a very difficult decision that the Chinese government had to make. You think they wanted to make it? Sometimes hard decision have to be made. All of those children, if they were born, would be starving in the streets as we speak if it weren't for the one child policy. Do I believed in forced abortions? Of course not, that's a horrific thing to do. Side: For
Well i wish it wasn't so, i wouldn't want this, but technically any kind of animal is designed so that it can increase its numbers. The (average) woman has two mammary glands, thus is meant to have two children. Two children, meaning that this way the species will grow more. Our planet is all ready over populated, and having just one child might help to stabilize things. It has worked in China so far, despite the odd person getting away with two because of some disease, or they have a lot of money! Side: For
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The Chinese government can simply deal with the economic costs of overpopulation through peaceful means, including, but not limited to, downsizing entitlement programs. No government should determine the course of someone's life, that right belongs to the individual. The reason why resources become a problem for society is because its members are forcibly integrated into each others' financial past decisions by a tax economy and the bureaucracies that "operate" by it. The greater the level of inclusion, the lower the level of sustainability. By binding people economically, the inevitable result will be to limit the indulgences of individuals who are otherwise more than capable of handling them and to encourage the indulgences of those who can't. Side: Against
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