Originally Posted by
The One Who
Is China's family planning policy still working though?
I have no clue where it's at now but it /was/ producing some results at first. I don't think China's specific plan should be modeled, rather that policy needs to be made to deal with overpopulation in all countries.
Originally Posted by
Aubergine
Rofl I forgot about that site. Pretty funny concept if you ask me. It might be too much, even for me, and that's saying something!
Originally Posted by
Feel_Good_inc.
Eugenics has never worked in the past. I don't think it would ever work
I guess in theory it works. Was it the Houyhnhnms ("whinims") of Gulliver's Travels who practiced Eugenics to make a perfect society? Pretty sure Swift was making satire, but I forget the details.
I don't know much about Eugenics, but it's probably fair to say it's never been popular because there's no way to make it nondiscriminatory and inhumane. Nazi Germany is the only real example I know of it, and that was clearly beyond f
ucked up. I'll have to go find my copy of Mein Kampf and Gulliver's Travels.
Speaking in inhumane, I'm trying to make a list of ways in which overpopulation can be tackled. No method that is inhumane would be considered, which makes for a short list. Pretty much the only thing is to decrease births.
Or, going back to Swift, we could eat homeless people and turn homeless children into gloves and other articles of clothing.