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Government-driven population control?

Yes
22 (44%)
No
20 (40%)
Not possible
8 (16%)
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Aren’t ‘No’ and ‘Not possible’ the same?

U.S. population to top 300 million this month.

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Indecisive by romanizzo

I didn’t vote, because I’m conflicted. It sounds like a great idea because overpopulation will become a problem in another couple decades, but how do you decide who gets to breed and who doesn’t? Besides, we need more strong American boys and girls.

And here’s a newsflash for all the folks back home – even if we whip the daylights out of the Middle East technologically and militarily for the next decade, they are still whippin our little butts because they are gonna breed us out. I met a sheik the other day that has 21 children.

The world can only hold so many – I’d just as soon they were educated folk that know and love liberty rather than…well, the alternative. It is your patriotic duty as an American to have a house full of little curtain climbers.

I think Julian Simon’s take on overpopulation is relevant here.

The Doomslayer
Malthusian fears have proven counterfactual for more than two centuries. The argument that would lead one to even consider restricting reproductive liberty on the basis of dwindling resources and lifeboat ethics is suspect at best.

Interesting … as of this post, "YES" is pulling just ahead. So I want to ask the people who voted that way:

HOW would you propose the government implements that?

  • imprisonment for parents with "extra children"
  • mandatory abortion
  • euthenasia

so i voted yes. go back to your TVs and believe their lies.

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