Chinese wisdom of one child policy

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shanshee_allures Jul 21, 2008 21:03:51
Replying to PMM

PMM wrote:
I'd prefer it if we just stopped producing so many of the little buggers in the first place.
I don't disagree with you there.
But my reason aren't just about protecting limited resources, it's also about limiting suffering.
We hate to face up to this in our own society, but so many children have crap chances in this life because they have parents who are *shitheads* basically.
We see it every day, little tikes bawled at for daring to be so small and weak.
Bullying bastards half the time.
Another story.
And I would rather the parents of these children were bumped off than the kids any day, coz they are the ones cluttering the place up.
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PMM Jul 21, 2008 21:48:25
Replying to shanshee_allures

shanshee_allures wrote:
I don't disagree with you there.
But my reason aren't just about protecting limited resources, it's also about limiting suffering.
That I believe is the reason some societies choose to pactice it.

shanshee_allures wrote:
We hate to face up to this in our own society, but so many children have crap chances in this life because they have parents who are *shitheads* basically.
Aye. Parents that are poorly educated, with bugger-all money, who were themselves brought up in poverty, and destined to produce children that they may do the same with their own offspring, knowing no better.

Quality of life is more important than quantity. You want a lesson in how to make the world a worse place, listen to the anti-abortionists, the anti-euthanasiaists, the anti-suicideists.

There are very strong links between poverty and the number of children. Yet the thinner the spread of resources, the more poverty...