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jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 week ago“because that would be eugenics” is not an explanation. You’re just asserting that eugenics is bad, which is begging the question – this is a post about the ethics of eugenics. You can’t just come in and say “eugenics is bad because it’s eugenics.”
ghost_of_faso3@lemmygrad.ml 1 week ago
Thats because the one child policy was coerced by the IVF in order for China to survive during a period of economic isolation, more so the one child policy only applied to han Chinese, and many still choose to have children, it wasn’t a ban on having extra children, they where just heavily disincentivized and given birth control.
Literally banning who can have sex would be eugenics yes
jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I don’t really see a strong difference ultimately between “heavily disincentivizing” and banning. Heavy disincentivization basically means the rule only applies to poor people. If it’s eugenics, it’s probably still eugenics even when limited to the poor, since most eugenicists would broadly consider wealthy people to likely have good genes.
Anyway, there are times when we should attempt to lower birth rates as a society. In my country it’s not needed, since the birth rate is so low.
ghost_of_faso3@lemmygrad.ml 1 week ago
You dont see the difference between a tax break vs literally jailing people who have kids? Its a pretty big difference!
jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Yeah, it’s a different implementation. One has an escape hatch for the wealthy; the other doesn’t.