With exceptions in cases like when a couple loses a child

Edit: in a scenario where everything is good. No wars, no famine.

  • MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works
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    18 days ago

    As an upper limit? As a lower limit? What do you mean?

    Forcing people who don’t want kids to have two is insane. Who will make it happen? Is there a conception agency where agents just go a rape women in this imagined scenario?

    Forcing a third pregnancy to terminate is also pretty insane. Suppose the mother doesn’t even know she’s pregnant until pretty far along. Suppose a mother hides her pregnancy and gives birth in secret; is that baby getting killed?

    In either case, what is the punishment for violation? Suppose a woman is incapable of having kids when you mandated 2; is she to be executed for being unable to fulfill this societal requirement? Suppose a woman intentionally had more than her government-permitted 2 children; what is her sentence for providing extra mouths to feed?

    It’s unethical, it’s not reasonably enforceable, and frankly, I’m not sure I understand what such a policy would even be attempting to accomplish.

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        17 days ago

        Forcing women to terminate pregnancies is as cruel as forcing them to be inseminated.

        What’s your point with this question?

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          17 days ago

          What’s your point with this question?

          I wanted to know what people think and what could be the pros and cons etc. That’s why people ask questions, don’t they?

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              17 days ago

              I never said that. Why’re you soo intent on putting words into my mouth?

              Population could also be controlled by neutering men.

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                17 days ago

                Not when it is a two child policy - women still birth those children.

                Fundamentally this is a question centered around controlling women’s bodies because it’s women that bear and birth children.

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                  17 days ago

                  And men still produce sperm. If we neuter them after 2 children we can still do it. Not that I like that. Just saying there is something else