• @Soggy@lemmy.world
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      211 month ago

      The unintended consequence is genocide. When people need permission to reproduce that introduces a convenient method to keep certain people from having kids.

      • Echo Dot
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        11 month ago

        I think that’s the point.

        There are some people who just definitely don’t have the wherewithal to be parents. They can barely look after themselves, often they don’t look after themselves.

        Part of the test would be to ask if you plan to name your kid after a Game Of Thrones character.

    • @derpgon@programming.dev
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      71 month ago

      How is that bad? Less pollution and garbage, no need for as much housing (thus dropping house prices), no need for as many stores, vehicles, resources.

      And less shitty parents, less homeless people, less crime. I see that as an absolute win.

      • @Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
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        101 month ago

        It TOTALLY won’t be structured in a way to keep people of certain classes unrelated to child rearing ability from essentially reproducing at all.

          • @Dasus@lemmy.world
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            31 month ago

            No… no. Not everything, but rhetoric like in your comment.

            You’re literally cheering on eugenics, with a false hope of what it would achieve.

            • @derpgon@programming.dev
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              21 month ago

              Alright, I should have prefaced this with “I assume society is working, there is no racism, corruption, non-cis non-hetero people have sufficient rights, and the government is working as intended.”

              Of course, unfeasible right now.

        • @Pretzilla@lemmy.world
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          51 month ago

          Let’s hope they figure out how to reduce population gracefully. It’s important to save the planet.

          • @stephen01king@lemmy.zip
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            61 month ago

            The problem is not reducing population, it’s to have our economic system be able to cope with population reduction instead of just collapsing. Do you think we have any hope of changing it for the better?

            • @x4740N@lemmy.worldOP
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              51 month ago

              Do you think we have any hope of changing it for the better?

              We do by working towards post scarcity and transitioning away from capitalism

              And if they try to stop it we force the transitioning