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In reply to the discussion: Since I got "Slammed" for suggesting China's 1 Child Policy was Socially Responsible [View all]aquart
(69,014 posts)41. You think THAT is what will cause a civil war?
Good grief. They have a rising wealth class with limited political rights. THAT is where civil war starts. That is where revolution is plotted.
But remember this in your gooey willingness to kill off the generation that is, they are all precious only children.
Would you sacrifice your only child so a rich man could procreate like Mitt Romney?
The impractical, suicidal altruism that hopes the Chinese will have excess children again ignores what happens to those children: They're expendable. They go into the army. Or work at slave wages in the factories that compete with ours. Or get sold into the sex trade.
I wouldn't wish that on a child myself. I'm not moral enough.
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Since I got "Slammed" for suggesting China's 1 Child Policy was Socially Responsible [View all]
FreakinDJ
May 2012
OP
We are only 5% of the world's population so the numbers aren't that big in absolute terms..
Fumesucker
May 2012
#8
You can scream all day that the OP is only talking about CHINA. You are still 100% dead wrong.
Zalatix
May 2012
#67
Those type countries aren't going to put in family size restrictions anyway for the most part..
Fumesucker
May 2012
#18
It was so "right" that it has left mass amounts of female children aborted or in orphanages.
Marrah_G
May 2012
#16
How about controlling population through education, opportunity and reproductive rights for women
Marrah_G
May 2012
#12
it is socially responsible, the problem is that it comes up against individual human rights
La Lioness Priyanka
May 2012
#26
We used to have a DUer who promoted the "Die Off" of the World's population theory here
NNN0LHI
May 2012
#49
People weren't arguing with you that overpopulation wasn't a problem
4th law of robotics
May 2012
#55
would people here prefer that China go back to its history of large families (sons preferred)...
magical thyme
May 2012
#60