In the United States of America you need a license to:
- Sell alcohol
- Run a business
- Drive a car
- Fish
- Fly an Airplane
Why doesn’t the same logic (good reasoning ability, proven aptitude, etc) apply to adding more people to the planet?
After all, people’s decision to have children drive the direction of the country. If you have kids and choose to be a dead beat, WE (hard working citizens) have to pay for your imbecility.
I’ve heard many reasons to have kids and they really don’t add up:
- hormones got the best of me when I was unprotected
- my religion doesn’t allow for birth control
- biological clock is ticking
- we have to continue the family name
- my parents want to be grandparents
None of these are really solid reasons to bring another person into this world.
So what do you think….
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While I cringe at the very thought of the lucky survivors of close call Darwinian activities spawning offspring, but I am sure as HELL not dictating that control to the government. We would wind up with every state having their own procreation rules just like driving and hunting laws and then you couldn’t move states for your job, because your family doesn’t fit the procreation population profile set forth by your potentially new state home.
Dammit man, can you for once think outside of the government taking control of everything? Forget the government, and just answer the question. Also, states have law the way they see fit. If you don’t like the states laws don’t move to that state. I thought you’d be for states rights. Ok, stepping off the soapbox….
I think there should be a class or some kind of qualification to have kids, maybe even a monetary requirement. While I support everyone having kids, I do not think it is fair to the children to be raised in a situation where they can not be supported AND everyone else (govt too) has to pick up the tab because they were not able to care for the children they created.
I am answering the question. If a license were required to have children, it would not be issued by a private institute. It would be issued by the gov. So government ineptitude comes into play here.
Gov aside. Why should anyone be able to tell me what to do in my personal life? (kids, drugs etc…)
Someone should have to tell you what to do because your actions may cause harm to the next individual. Thus, the reason we have laws. While I agree as always with you, I, like the next man, want no one telling me what to do but if my actions are infringing on the next individual I should be stopped.
So…you’re saying if I have 30 kids you won’t mind helping me out? Cause I know I don’t wanna pay for my “mistakes.” If you don’t the govt will…oh yeah…you pay the govt…thanks!
I knew the whole “I pay gov, gov pay you b/c you cant afford kids” argument would come. So your solution to stop people from having kids, instead of cutting the frivolous spending that helps people afford their mistakes, is to stop them from having kids. Is your solution to everything more laws, regulations and paperwork? Why don’t we just subsidize abortions in lieu of procreation permits?
There needs to be a set of requirements on having kids. Far too many kids have the deck stacked way against them when they are born. A set of requirements Age, Income, ability to support the kids, and dare I say Intelligence would go a long way in improving the way our society runs.
Baby making is something simply done by two people. A license doesn’t crank my car. A license will not prevent me from making kids. If we were to open up such things as getting a permit to have kids, why not ask the government to approve who lives next to me, or who is allowed to drive down my street or who is allowed to live in our state (not to be taken in the literal sense). I’m all in for some controls because it is the difference in my lifestyle or the lifestyle of an Iraqi man, but some things regardless of how you “attempt” to fix them, will not be contained.
Disney World is in Orlando. There are many stars to wish on there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy
Seems to be working fairly well in China.
Are you moving to China then?
When I get my money right.
Let me know how the life of a coal miner works out for you.
Did you know that they stopped that, they are running short on women. Families were having abortions or killing babies just to keep the family name going…
Just because they stopped it doesn’t mean it was without merit. It wasn’t long ago that we have gas for $1.15 a gallon
Trouble doesn’t last always.
You DO NOT want to live in China. I spent one month working there and that was enough.
No, if he wants to move over there just because the thinks his neighbors can only make one baby, let him go!
You’d miss me too much. I wouldn’t want to add that stress to your life
I’d have a new mega nissan. I’d be fine.
I have to wonder, how would such a license be enforced? Once you figure that out, the question of whether to have such a license in the first place has an obvious answer.
I see it being done the same way as a driver’s license. You take the test, you get the license, and then you go on your merry way. From that point the execution is left up to the hospital. Sure some people would go underground and have their kids, but you have to be pretty hardcore to pull that one off.
Maybe enforcement is the wrong idea, maybe fines…but then you can’t fine those who have little money, or jail them either….
Yeah enforcement is a tough call.
Obviously not…
Are you writing a fiction book!!!! HA HA HA Dude, a driver’s license doesn’t stop me from driving now. If I fail my make-a-baby test, then me and ms will go home and just practice.
People drive, hunt, fly an airplane, practice law, etc…all without a license. What makes you think that even if it was a law, people (the people that need the license especially) wouldn’t find a way to get around it like they do now. People won’t follow basic laws now that require the use of a license…such as a license to carry a deadly weapon. So I’m going to say no on that one. Teaching the importance of abstinence and practicing it is going to be our best choice.
We see how incredibly well that is working out so far don’t we?
True…true. The fight for abstinence should be pushed just like the fight for breast cancer….they would both save lives!
Abstinence does not “save” lives it just prevents them, bad analogy, but I see where you’re going.
I’m all for this, but unfortunately, I’m only for it under a dictatorship which I run. Since even allowing my dictatorship to run goes against everything I stand for, then I know my idea is just a pipe dream.
Other than that, there really is no way to enforce this (currently) and having the inept government try to do it will only drive up the cost and destroy families like crazy. You can’t regulate a natural human activity. This means things like driving, getting married, hunting, and fishing are subject to regulation, but rights like breeding, eating, and drinking water shouldn’t be thanks in part to those being functions necessary for life and the continuation of the species. However, if we really want our government to do something completely draconian in regulating a natural human function then we have various countries in Africa to look to in order to properly control this.
In Africa, when we eliminate the supply of available food, people don’t eat because they can’t. Sure large amounts of people die, but hey, we can blame it on the weather. :-) If people in the United States mysteriously all became sterile due to drugs in the water supply, and we regulated who gets the cure, then we get our answer. :-D
Then well, if our cure starts to fail we’ve exterminated the whole human race.
Sounds like a movie. Can decide if it’s District 9 or I am Legend.