*encouraged and educated
This question is asked for the sakes of poor, neglected, abused children everywhere. Primarily those born into poverty and congested towns / regions which may or may not be in the middle of war.
This is what is called a 'false dilemma' since my position is neither of the above. Saying I am one in this situation would make me commit the sin of oversimplification of a complex issue.
If human life truly is as valuable as people say, then procreation in itself would not be something people do 'just because' or 'accidentally' or 'I want more love and meaning in MY life' or 'the need to propagate genes' or 'some God'.
I say what I say because I actually give half a d*mn.
I don't have any answers. I am wondering why people don't care. Suffering and cruelty is something I would try to reduce as after all God made me an empathetic and caring person gifted also with reason and logic.
What you are asking about has been tried before. I suggest you go to Google.com and research "eugenics movement". Eugenicists believed that poverty, vice, and bad living were at least partly hereditary. By their beliefs, a society could be made more prosperous if those who dragged it down were prevented from reproducing.
Its adherents were too many to be listed in a short space, but they included Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who upheld a case involving sterilization of a supposedly mentally handicapped woman.
The American Eugenics Movement started in the 1880s and lasted into the 20th century, perhaps peaking in the early 1920s. Whatever was left of it died out, as its tenets were too close to those so infamously embraced by Adolf Hitler.
Do I know you?!
You're sentence structure and choice of wording sound very, very familiar :)
Don't they, though!
I hardly think people don't care simply because they don't believe in your idea of population control. I am a social worker. I don't do it for the money...
And that is why I ask you the quetion...
If you answer, then I will truly know if you truly give half a damn.
Meowsolini
I never said I wanted to sterilize poor people. I said in my original response towards the bottom:
"To be honest though I don't really have a solution"
I don't remember my response being sterilization. Also my research and own conclusions to overpopulation is way different than yours and I won't bother to share because it is pretty clear that all you had to do was ask but you'd rather much go the name calling route.
I think that Hitler was a rash response and yes Hitler's name will mean nothing, this means that pretty soon the term Hitler will just amount down to "anyone you disagree with."
Like a few years ago I did that to but then I stopped because you know.. it becomes futile when there is no actual debate involved.
