Should there be limits on breeding?

[LimaUniformNovemberAlpha]

Right now, the western world is making babies regardless of the environmental consequences, partly because they want to, but partly to compete with Middle Eastern immigrants who are making babies of their own.

Some have suggested that the alternative is to stop taking in Middle Eastern immigrants in the first place. But this would doom them to a life of poverty and war. Why not just place limits on the number of children you can have, regardless of race, so that the Middle Eastern immigrants can't outbreed the locals, and the environment will be better protected from us humans?

[Kannadrickium]

If we learned anything from Prohibition it's that people will just make babies in their bathtubs.

[Liriena]

I guess I should have seen this coming... "muh great replacement" leading people to embrace Maoist reproductive policies.

[The South Falls]

Right now, the western world is making babies regardless of the environmental consequences, partly because they want to, but partly to compete with Middle Eastern immigrants who are making babies of their own.

Some have suggested that the alternative is to stop taking in Middle Eastern immigrants in the first place. But this would doom them to a life of poverty and war. Why not just place limits on the number of children you can have, regardless of race, so that the Middle Eastern immigrants can't outbreed the locals, and the environment will be better protected from us humans?

Well, that would be
1. Hard to Enforce: I mean, are we going to have a single officer in every single house, to see how many times couples have sex?
2. Baby Genocide (Sexist Baby Genocide): Boys would probably be placed over girls, meaning that a whole bunch of babies would be killed
and
3. Crazy: The Human race would eventually die out, because one child, producing one child is a reverse pyramid, where there will eventually be only one left.

[Kenmoria]

A one child, or two child policy simply wouldn't work, just look at what happened in China.

[The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp]

No beacuse there's a bunch of unused unsettled land.

Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, Northern Ontario.

Hell even the South Ontario still has whole load of nothing.

[United Muscovite Nations]

I guess I should have seen this coming... "muh great replacement" leading people to embrace Maoist reproductive policies.

Great replacement isn't a meme, there are large parts of Europe where demographic trends have non-natives replacing natives within a few generations. Though I don't think this is all due to Middle Eastern migration, but also due to Polish and Eastern European migration.

[Liriena]

No beacuse there's a bunch of unused unsettled land.

Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, Northern Ontario.

Hell even the South Ontario still has whole load of nothing.

Hey, I called dibs on Vermont!

[The South Falls]

A one child, or two child policy simply wouldn't work, just look at what happened in China.

Exactly. It would be (see my above post). And plus, wouldn't 'freedom-based' nations not implement it, defeating the point. Couples would just move to the non-implementor nations, which would mean that the non-implementors would see a pop explosion.

No beacuse there's a bunch of unused unsettled land.

Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, Northern Ontario.

Hell even the South Ontario still has whole load of nothing.

The Entire Canadian North is just... nothing...

[The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp]

No beacuse there's a bunch of unused unsettled land.

Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, Northern Ontario.

Hell even the South Ontario still has whole load of nothing.

Hey, I called dibs on Vermont!

Ok, it's all yours.

[Liriena]

I guess I should have seen this coming... "muh great replacement" leading people to embrace Maoist reproductive policies.

Great replacement isn't a meme, there are large parts of Europe where demographic trends have non-natives replacing natives within a few generations. Though I don't think this is all due to Middle Eastern migration, but also due to Polish and Eastern European migration.

Eeeeh...

[Valrifell]

I guess I should have seen this coming... "muh great replacement" leading people to embrace Maoist reproductive policies.

Great replacement isn't a meme, there are large parts of Europe where demographic trends have non-natives replacing natives within a few generations. Though I don't think this is all due to Middle Eastern migration, but also due to Polish and Eastern European migration.

Demographic trends tend to project linearly from current data, which is kinda freaking worthless when talking about something as volatile as demographic trends.

[Liriena]

The Entire Canadian North is just... nothing...

If it has good wifi and bookstores, I'm in.

[Len Hyet]

It's also morally objectionable to force people to have more or fewer children at gunpoint.

Why has this point not been raised?

[Valrifell]

It's also morally objectionable to force people to have more or fewer children at gunpoint.

Why has this point not been raised?

Because it being morally objectionable hasn't stopped people from trying, or proposing the idea repeatedly.

[The South Falls]

The Entire Canadian North is just... nothing...

If it has good wifi and bookstores, I'm in.

Well, it has to have some Mobile Data, and not only bookstores but good Tea shops.

[San Marlindo]

Right now, the western world is making babies regardless of the environmental consequences, partly because they want to, but partly to compete with Middle Eastern immigrants who are making babies of their own.

Rubbish. The rate of natural increase in most Western countries is far below the replacement rate.

[United Muscovite Nations]

Great replacement isn't a meme, there are large parts of Europe where demographic trends have non-natives replacing natives within a few generations. Though I don't think this is all due to Middle Eastern migration, but also due to Polish and Eastern European migration.

Eeeeh...

There are already parts of Europe (like Frankfurt) where the majority is immigrant, and in the United States, the trend is pretty much irreversible already, with whites no longer being a majority of births.

In 2015 36% children under 5 years old had migrant background.[43]

(Germany)

[In 2010, the proportion of migrant families in all families was 32% in the former territory of the Federal Republic. This figure was more than double that in the new Länder (incl. Berlin) where it stood at 15%.[42]/quote]

According to data from the city register of residents, 51.2% of the population had an immigrant background as of 2015. For the first time a majority of the city residents had a non-German background.[26] Moreover, three of four children in the city under the age of six had immigrant backgrounds.[27] Moreover, about 27.7% of residents had a foreign citizenship.[28]

(Frankfurt)

The scope of foreign origin can be estimated by the National Screening Program for Sickle Cell Disease because the genetic disease very rarely affects European people. Under government rules, newborn babies are screened when their backgrounds place them at risk of inheriting two copies of the sickle-cell gene, with the following criteria:[33]

Both parents are known to originate from a risk region.
If the identity of one parent (i.e., the father) is unknown, the other (the mother) originates from a risk region.
There is a family history of sickle-cell disease, regardless of the above.
If there is any doubt as to the three preceding criteria, the baby is tested.[34]
The screening suggests that in 2000, 19 percent of all newborn babies in Metropolitan France had at least one parent originating from one of the risk regions. The figure for 2007 was 28.45 percent, for 2010 31.5 percent, for 2012 34.44 percent, for 2013 35.7 percent,[35] and for 2015 38.9 percent.[33] These percentages vary widely among French regions; for example, in 2015, screening suggested that only 8.1% of children born in Brittany had a parent originating from a sickle-cell risk region, while 73.4% of children born in Île-de-France (which includes Paris) did.[36] The percentage for Île-de-France was a significant increase from 54.2% in 2005.[33] However, a 2014 story in Le Monde suggested that the testing figures for Île-de-France were distorted by the practices of some hospitals in the region, which choose to test all babies whether or not they have parents with ancestry from an endemic sickle-cell region.[37]

(France)

[Novowarsawianka]

Right now, the western world is making babies regardless of the environmental consequences, partly because they want to, but partly to compete with Middle Eastern immigrants who are making babies of their own.

Some have suggested that the alternative is to stop taking in Middle Eastern immigrants in the first place. But this would doom them to a life of poverty and war. Why not just place limits on the number of children you can have, regardless of race, so that the Middle Eastern immigrants can't outbreed the locals, and the environment will be better protected from us humans?

Just limit immigration to those who deserve it or are needed. Merit based immigration will be our salvation. In a few years you would have no issue to ban people without higher education from immigrating, because you won't need more manual labour.
Educated people, no matter where they come from, don't just breed like rabbits.

Besides, giving a cap to breeding is wrong. But we should encourage poorer people to have less children, and educated and wealthy people to have more. Poor people can't afford to send 5 kids to college really, but 1 or 2 would be doable. Sexual education, affordable protection and so on are the key.
Now, this should be a recommendation, not forcing people to do it, forcing people into this sounds overly authoritarian and dystopian.

But, this does not go for underdeveloped countries like Nigeria, which need a Chinese style limit, at least until they become manageable. Overpopulation would be the death blow for Africa.

[Essu Beti]

Quick solution to overpopulation: easy access to contraception, exhaustive sex-ed education, and stop giving publicity and tv shows to people with a butt-ton of children.

Slow to overpopulation: change the culture. Make having small families more prestigious than large ones, encourage adoption instead of reproduction, and make it actually possible for a woman to go to the doctor and request tubal ligation without the doctor refusing to do it until she’s already popped a few out.

[Purpelia]

Right now, the western world is making babies regardless of the environmental consequences, partly because they want to, but partly to compete with Middle Eastern immigrants who are making babies of their own.

Some have suggested that the alternative is to stop taking in Middle Eastern immigrants in the first place. But this would doom them to a life of poverty and war. Why not just place limits on the number of children you can have, regardless of race, so that the Middle Eastern immigrants can't outbreed the locals, and the environment will be better protected from us humans?

So what you are saying is that in order to save foreigners from the mess they them self created western countries should begin infringing on the fundamental biological rights of their citizens?

How about we don't?

[Greed and Death]

If we learned anything from Prohibition it's that people will just make babies in their bathtubs.

Kinky.

[United Imperial Systems]

Eeeeh...

There are already parts of Europe (like Frankfurt) where the majority is immigrant, and in the United States, the trend is pretty much irreversible already, with whites no longer being a majority of births.

In 2015 36% children under 5 years old had migrant background.[43]

(Germany)

[In 2010, the proportion of migrant families in all families was 32% in the former territory of the Federal Republic. This figure was more than double that in the new Länder (incl. Berlin) where it stood at 15%.[42]/quote]

(Frankfurt)

(France)

Migrant background =/= Middle east.
Maybe watch the video?

[LimaUniformNovemberAlpha]

Right now, the western world is making babies regardless of the environmental consequences, partly because they want to, but partly to compete with Middle Eastern immigrants who are making babies of their own.

Some have suggested that the alternative is to stop taking in Middle Eastern immigrants in the first place. But this would doom them to a life of poverty and war. Why not just place limits on the number of children you can have, regardless of race, so that the Middle Eastern immigrants can't outbreed the locals, and the environment will be better protected from us humans?

Well, that would be
1. Hard to Enforce: I mean, are we going to have a single officer in every single house, to see how many times couples have sex?
2. Baby Genocide (Sexist Baby Genocide): Boys would probably be placed over girls, meaning that a whole bunch of babies would be killed
and
3. Crazy: The Human race would eventually die out, because one child, producing one child is a reverse pyramid, where there will eventually be only one left.

1. No, only sterilize after a given number of babies born. Or offer a choice between that and abortion.

2. Only in China. The western world finds little girls cuter than little boys.

3. I didn't say it had to be a one-child policy.

[LimaUniformNovemberAlpha]

Besides, giving a cap to breeding is wrong. But we should encourage poorer people to have less children, and educated and wealthy people to have more. Poor people can't afford to send 5 kids to college really, but 1 or 2 would be doable. Sexual education, affordable protection and so on are the key.

How effective have they been so far?