An often overlooked aspect of reducing one’s environmental footprint is having no children or having fewer children. It’s the only ethical form of population reduction for obvious reasons, and less people means that humanity’s collective environmental impact is reduced.

To my knowledge, China is the only country to have national legislation limiting the number of children people can have through its one-child policy, which has recently been changed to allow two children per family to reduce the risk of having a population where the elderly massively outnumber young people. Of course, this policy needs to be combined with sex education, easy access to contraception, etc in order to actually work.

What would your opinion be on other countries, especially other developed countries, adopting policies like this? Do you think the environmental benefits outweigh the issues caused?

  • Stoned_Ape
    12·
    4 years ago

    It wouldn’t be fascist if the majority of people are on board, and the rules are fair, useful and are for everyone. It would only be facist if it would be made in a fascist way.

    • koavf
      51·
      4 years ago

      A majority of German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish citizens were just fine with their fascist dictators.

        • koavf
          11·
          4 years ago

          You wrote that majoritarianism isn’t fascist and that’s not true so I am pointing out how you are wrong.

          • Stoned_Ape
            11·
            4 years ago

            So democracy is facist? If more than 50%, or even 90+% of people are in favor of something, it’s suddenly fascist?

            • koavf
              11·
              4 years ago

              No, literally no one wrote that or anything like it.

              • Stoned_Ape
                1·
                4 years ago

                I was referring to democracy with “majority”. I’m not sure what you understood from my first comment. I really have no idea what you’re talking about.

                • koavf
                  11·
                  4 years ago

                  What I am saying is that majorities can support fascism. Just because 50%+1 agree with something does not make it democratic, as democracy supports minority rights and fascism does not.

                  • Stoned_Ape
                    11·
                    4 years ago

                    What I am saying is that majorities can support fascism.

                    Of course. This is what I said:

                    It wouldn’t be fascist if the majority of people are on board, and the rules are fair, useful and are for everyone.

                    What I said isn’t just about the majority. It’s also about the rules being fair, useful and for everyone.

                    Just because 50%+1 agree with something does not make it democratic

                    If the votes were free and informed, then that’s literally what democracy is.

                    democracy supports minority rights

                    Democracy really is just a way to vote on a government, or in broader terms to participate in defining ones society. That government is making such rules as this, but only because the majority wants these rules. In a perfect democracy, the government wouldn’t do anything that the majority doesn’t want. Democracy isn’t a moral agent. The public is the agent.

      • roastpotatothief
        3·
        4 years ago

        Is there even any definition of fascism? Some equate it with supremacism, others with authoritarianism. For me, the definitive thing about the fascist party was morality - they enforced morally good behaviour as laws.

        Using the word at all invites misunderstanding.