Anonymous Mom, No Dads, + 14

[sugarpop]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Meh... it's not illegal to have a stupid number of children. (It'll probably even get you your own television show.) But seriously, would you have been okay with it if she happened to end up with only one or two babies from the procedure, for a total of 7-8 kids? That many kids used to be relatively common, even. They strongly advised her to reduce (i.e. abort some of them) after they found out how many were gestating. She chose not to. You can't force an abortion on someone.

I wouldn't. We have got to put a curb on birth rates. The planet simply cannot continue supporting the population that is here now, much less the rate of growth. Do you realize the population has doubled since Kennedy was president?

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by sugarpop

I wouldn't. We have got to put a curb on birth rates. The planet simply cannot continue supporting the population that is here now, much less the rate of growth. Do you realize the population has doubled since Kennedy was president?

Population growth is hard to curb and a full out attempt will most likely cause a backlash just as great as the original problem. Not to mention that we are going into the world of telling how many babies a person can have.

Though, I do believe we should work on curbing population growth, but we have to be smart and rational about it. Another large part of this is that we need to become much more efficient with food, water, and energy. We need to start investing massive amounts into those sectors (engineering in general) if we want to avoid major problems in the future.

[sugarpop]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

Population growth is hard to curb and a full out attempt will most likely cause a backlash just as great as the original problem. Not to mention that we are going into the world of telling how many babies a person can have.

While I believe in personal freedom and I believe people should basically have the right to do pretty much whatever they want, as long as they aren't harming anyone else or doing damage, I have no problem going into the territory of forced control of the number of kids people can have. My god, if you want more, adopt. There are plenty of poor, unwanted kids out there.

Though, I do believe we should work on curbing population growth, but we have to be smart and rational about it. Another large part of this is that we need to become much more efficient with food, water, and energy. We need to start investing massive amounts into those sectors (engineering in general) if we want to avoid major problems in the future.

Yes. I believe we need to get serious about alternative energy and electric cars. Instead of importing so much food, we should be supporting local organic farmers. We need to start making things in this country again. Shipping massive consumer goods all the way from China and India is just not efficient.