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What is the solution to overpopulation?

Strong supporter of the 1-child only rule. Sorry you cant have as many kids as you want we just have too many people and can't keep expanding at this rate
 
Have less children, though I'm sure a lot of people are going that route anyway.
 
Kill anyone that has done something bad instead of giving them like permanent chain or whatever also making the limit to 1 child (these people that have like 7 calm down woman) but you can adopt however many you want. That's all I can think of rn
 
This is my personal opinion, but I believe that birthrates in more developed nations (such as Japan, Germany, Italy, and South Korea) should rise, as an aging population isn't good either. However, for the developing nations with high birth rates, I think that birth control should just become more available.
 
have a limit of how many kids u can have and who can have kids like there should be a test or smth ya know
 
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Also this may sound very very mean/harsh, but if you have a kid that has a severe and I mean severe disability like can't perform life's main things without help (like eating or putting on clothes by themselves, etc. and I don't mean like 3 year olds lmao I mean if they are at an age where they should be able to do it) or talk/communicate, you should probably let them go. If I was one of them I'd honestly rather kms than live life like that. Idk my opinion that would help population b/c what is the point to holding on to people like that can't do anything by themselves and have nothing to give to society....
 
adopting instead of having your own?? lol idk but the purge is a great idea for this :)
 
I read a book about a corrupt world where third children are banned (called, "Among the Hidden"), and I must say it will give you a new perspective if you think the children limits are a great idea.
 
Potential parents should have to compete in some sort of trial, let's call it the 'Thunderdome'. They'll fight other potential parents to the death and if they win, they have earned the right to have a baby.

If parents who didn't compete or win in the Thunderdome have a baby anyway, the parents are executed and their baby is sent away to 'baby island' where the baby must fight among the other children for survival. If they make it to the age of 18, they can come back, they've proven themselves.

Should one of the babies survive and decide to put an end the corrupt system that lead to the execution of their parents via an orgy of action movie explosions and gunfights, that's the signal that we're no longer overpopulated and it's safe to have casual unprotected sex again.



Alternatively, sex helmets from Demolition Man.
 
Easy. Declare people competent enough to care for a child through a civics test. No pass, no child. Of course, the test would just weed out the abusive people. Also, make sure people can afford to have a kid.
that way we know the kid is cared for. child neglect and abuse is terrible.
 
Easy. Declare people competent enough to care for a child through a civics test. No pass, no child. Of course, the test would just weed out the abusive people. Also, make sure people can afford to have a kid.
that way we know the kid is cared for. child neglect and abuse is terrible.

Wouldn't work out though. Lots of people can afford children but circumstances change. There's no guarantees. You don't know if your child would be disabled, have special needs, ill health. You don't know if you will become unwell tomorrow and give up work or lose your job or become disabled yourself.
Plenty of abusive people would just play the system like they do already, there's no way to know whether somebody would be 'competent' enough to look after a child until they actually have one.

As for the solution, I have no idea. It's the lack of recourses that are the problem. In this area there is a big housing shortage, so many people are on the streets. It was only a couple of days ago a homeless person was found frozen to death 10 minutes from where I live. You can take them food and blankets but on the coldest night of the year when they're sleeping in a doorway it won't always cut it :( incredibly sad
 
Purge/ Hunger games. Also I agree with like a test to prove if parents can have kids. Like for real some parents don't even deserve kids????????? pls
 
Enforce strict procreation laws. Invent more useful method of contraception. Limit parents to one child per family.

Start WW3. Rebuild and create a nation ruled by a dictator. Divide the nation into 13 cities and have them each specialise in a specific resource. Teach them that the dictator is a god and can whisk away the children of any district in a heart beat via enforcing a game from which 24 children enter and battle it out until only one stands.

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Easy. Declare people competent enough to care for a child through a civics test. No pass, no child. Of course, the test would just weed out the abusive people. Also, make sure people can afford to have a kid.
that way we know the kid is cared for. child neglect and abuse is terrible.

This wouldn't work, nor does it make sense. Merely having a test that shows us who are the people fit for parenting does nothing. People would still conceive and have accidental children, of which they would still grow up and likely do the same as their parents.

What you said doesn't tackle overpopulation, it just benefits those that are the result of overpopulation. Not addressing the problem at all.

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adopting instead of having your own?? lol idk but the purge is a great idea for this :)

I can't stand this argument. "Why conceive a child, your own genes and heritage, when you can just adopt some random kid that's the result of someone's bad mistake(s)?"
 
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