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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What about adoptive parents? What about single parents? egg and sperm donors? Do people who lose their jobs lose their families? As if employers need more power over workers. What about people who want more than 2 children?

By the way you know the population replacement rate in developed nations is 2.1 children per woman right? How can you plan POSSIBLY maintain a population? Do we just have less and less people until we're extinct?

This is quite possibly the dumbest idea I've ever run into. You put so much effort and yet so little thought into this hare brained idea I'm frankly flabbergasted.

If you're like a kid or something then good thought experiment. Maybe take some time to learn a bit more about the world around you when you come up with ideas.

  • Ask yourself why your idea ISN'T already implemented?
  • Is it only possible due to a modern development?
  • Is there some fundamental aspect of human nature that's preventing your idea from having already been implemented?
  • Who makes the policy decisions?
  • Is there a way to implement your idea without putting too much power in the hands of too few?
  • Is your implementation overly sensitive to corruption?
  • How will you deal with people who disagree?
  • How will you deal with people who break the rules?
  • Is the punishment/control more damaging to society than the problem you're trying to fix?
  • How will you deal with people who don't fit into your framework of who constitutes a suitable family?
  • If you gave the general idea to someone else for implementation can you trust that they will implement it fairly and according to your vision or do you personally have to be in charge for this to work in a fair manner?
  • Do you think your idea of fair is more valid than someone else's?

These types of questions will help you flesh out good ideas and avoid the common pitfalls to bad ones.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

It isn't why, it is when.