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by ben_w 520 days ago
But it is a way to limit people to a fixed maximum number of children.

Say it's a requirement for an hour per day per child — no matter how many drugs Musk takes to stay awake, he can't have more than 24 kids.
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satvikpendem 520 days ago
But, lots of people have many kids thst they don't take care of. Genghis Khan is one such example, apocryphally having so many kids as to constitute 2% of the current Asian population having had him as an ancestor. So I don't quite get your point, there is no maximum.
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ben_w 519 days ago
The suggestion is to change the rules, so what people currently do is irrelevant.

Genghis Khan set the rules, which is why actually changing them would be very difficult.

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satvikpendem 519 days ago
The suggestion falls apart under any scrutiny, you can't force anyone to take care of their kids, if they want to, they will, and if they don't, they won't. Genghis Khan is more closer to our current ruleset than anyone currently is to this suggested rule set, he didn't set any rules, he was following the same rules as people currently do, as I mentioned in the previous sentence.
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ben_w 519 days ago
> The suggestion falls apart under any scrutiny, you can't force anyone to take care of their kids, if they want to, they will, and if they don't, they won't.

I can easily imagine a punishment of forced sterilisation for non-compliance. It wouldn't be the first time human society had that as a punishment.

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satvikpendem 519 days ago
I mean, if we're talking about totalitarian rather than democratic regimes, then sure, you can sterilize people who don't comply.
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ben_w 519 days ago
> democratic regimes

UK, 2015, due to the mother not being capable of looking after her kids: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-31128969

Also, one of the main things that made it stop wasn't specifically democracy, but that eugenics became unacceptable, otherwise you'd have to explain why you think the US wasn't democratic until 1942: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinner_v._Oklahoma

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EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 519 days ago
I think a lot of people living at that time would constitute 2% of the current Asian population having had him (or her) as an ancestor.
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