I think any measure interfering with a person's right to have children is a severe infringement on their rights. On the other hand, I can see where our growing population can (and, I believe, already has in some places) lead to disaster. The ideal world population would be less than what it is right now.
Perhaps a good approach would be to give people an incentive to have fewer children. Maybe a financial reward for sticking to two? But that requires putting more money through the government, and we're already way in over our heads there. So that might not be the best, after all.
In the end, I think it comes down to education - such a fundamentally important part of the approach to solving almost any problem, it seems. Educated people are more likely to have smaller families for a number of reasons - they understand how to use birth control, they can provide for their families without needing children to help with agricultural work, they understand the population issue, and of course, they tend to put off starting a family until they've finished their education.
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Date: 24/7/11 19:02 (UTC)I think any measure interfering with a person's right to have children is a severe infringement on their rights. On the other hand, I can see where our growing population can (and, I believe, already has in some places) lead to disaster. The ideal world population would be less than what it is right now.
Perhaps a good approach would be to give people an incentive to have fewer children. Maybe a financial reward for sticking to two? But that requires putting more money through the government, and we're already way in over our heads there. So that might not be the best, after all.
In the end, I think it comes down to education - such a fundamentally important part of the approach to solving almost any problem, it seems. Educated people are more likely to have smaller families for a number of reasons - they understand how to use birth control, they can provide for their families without needing children to help with agricultural work, they understand the population issue, and of course, they tend to put off starting a family until they've finished their education.