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I hate when this issue is raised, but what the hell...
So many valid reasons to object, but the #1 reason is: How would you enforce it? Ban people from having sex without a permit? Phfft, good luck with that.
What happens when... and many will... have a kid without a permit? Do we take the kid(s) away? Who pays for that? Prison time? Really? Talk about a draconian society. Sorry, no. While there most certainly are parents who shouldn't be, the mere suggestion is counter to everything that our society is supposed to stand for.
FTR: I don't think government should be in the hunting and fishing license business, either. Driving only to establish competency, then the license is your's to lose.
Not no, but hell no, no way, no how.Should people be required to qualify and obtain a license to have children? If so, what should be the standards to qualify and why?
People need a license to drive, hunt, fish, etc and society is inundated with government regulations as it is, and yet people can breed freely without regard for their ability to provide for their children and regardless of genetic health. Personally, I think it would be disastrous to give the government control over reproduction, especially considering the lousy job it does with everything else. And yet, it is illogical for unhealthy and/or poverty stricken people to breed.
So many valid reasons to object, but the #1 reason is: How would you enforce it? Ban people from having sex without a permit? Phfft, good luck with that.
What happens when... and many will... have a kid without a permit? Do we take the kid(s) away? Who pays for that? Prison time? Really? Talk about a draconian society. Sorry, no. While there most certainly are parents who shouldn't be, the mere suggestion is counter to everything that our society is supposed to stand for.
FTR: I don't think government should be in the hunting and fishing license business, either. Driving only to establish competency, then the license is your's to lose.
Whose intelligence? Yours? Some government bureaucrats? Would partisan politics and political correctness be the only allowable answers?Yup, I'd require it. Income and intelligence would be 2 immediate factors I'd use as criteria.
I'm ok with paying people for voluntary sterilization. Would cause a serious uproar, of course, as many do-gooders would claim coersion and taking advantage of the poor and less fortunate, but I disagree with those points-of-view.Some people are serious about it and trying to do something about it. Exhibit A: Sterilize for Cash: Paying Drug Addicts to Not Have Kids - TIME
That's really what it comes down to, isn't it? Example #1,023,693 that the most ardent libertarians are only jaw-jackin' when they prattle on about freedom and the individual. When push comes to shove they'll throw anybody and everybody else under the bus if anything... especially money... is asked and/or required of them.They can die in the street, for all I care. I'm sick of being robbed, and I'm tired of subsidizing stupidity.