Politics

Is controlling population growth a necessary political strategy?

For

It reduces pressure on natural resources and infrastructure.

Against

It violates personal freedom and human rights.

Anonymous excerpts, translated where noted.

For

  • Stops the mindless population explosion without robbing people of having somewhat natural lives and passing on off springs completely.
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  • Well, there was China's One/Two Child Policy. That seems to have been OK.
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Against

  • Every form of explicit population control that humanity has tried so far has been a human rights nightmare at best, genocide at worst.
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  • There are immoral, unethical, and harmful ways to work on population and they are centered in “population control.”
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