While I agree on the surface, the stark reality is that this would inevitably be used as a eugenics program. Imagine the current “speedrunning fascism low %” administration having the legal authority to decide who does (and more importantly, who doesn’t) get a parent permit.

Agree, but I also see how it can never be implemented. For all the good I think it would do, it would immediately be warped to some sort of ethnic cleansing.

How eugenics of you

People will say they hate eugenics but then just argue for the same concept under a different term. Anyone who agrees with this should read Eugenics and Other Evils by G.K. Chesterton, where he criticizes and refutes the idea of giving the state authority of who can have kids when.

What happens if unqualified people get pregnant?

How about "you can have kids when the unborn child consents to being born"?

congrats you just discovered progressive eugenics

Yes, Yeeeeeeeeees this one

Fucking yes.

Your takes are way too mild guys.. Yet again, I will go even further:

I am an antinatalist:

• Having kids is unethical in all cases. It is always an egocentric act. You may have many reasons to have kids, but none are for the good of the child. It cannot be, since the child does not exist yet. Hence, it is egotistical.

It is always better to not exist.

"Better never to have been", by Benatar, should be mandatory reading.