Mostly, I think we need to fight poverty, increase access to and accurate education about contraception, and educate people about population growth. They're not quick, easy solutions, but forced sterilisation isn't ok. You're talking about forcing a life changing medical procedure on people based on other people's judgements about their quality of life. Some people with hereditary conditions choose not to have children, and that's their choice. But
Plus, you're talking about sterilising a portion of the population that's relatively small and probably has a lower fertility rate than the general population anyway. Even if it were morally fine, it wouldn't have a significant impact on population growth. You'd be spending huge amounts of resources rounding up and sterilising disabled people (which would have a serious negative impact on the population psychologically, whether you think it's immoral or not) for a decrease in the population growth rate that would probably be negligible and certainly not be enough to actually cause the population to shrink.
Should everyone be allowed to reproduce?
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Mostly, I think we need to fight poverty, increase access to and accurate education about contraception, and educate people about population growth. They're not quick, easy solutions, but forced sterilisation isn't ok. You're talking about forcing a life changing medical procedure on people based on other people's judgements about their quality of life. Some people with hereditary conditions choose not to have children, and that's their choice. But
Plus, you're talking about sterilising a portion of the population that's relatively small and probably has a lower fertility rate than the general population anyway. Even if it were morally fine, it wouldn't have a significant impact on population growth. You'd be spending huge amounts of resources rounding up and sterilising disabled people (which would have a serious negative impact on the population psychologically, whether you think it's immoral or not) for a decrease in the population growth rate that would probably be negligible and certainly not be enough to actually cause the population to shrink.
Also, you know, some of us are glad we were born.