[OnyxCougar]

Originally posted by lumberjim

perhaps incentivizing non reproduction could work if someone smarter than us figured out how to do it effectively. maybe....MAYBE penalizing people financially for abusing the foster care system through increased taxes could work.

Well, I don't think penalisation works, because mainly, you can't get blood from a turnip, and the only option besides financial is jailtime. Since our jails are already overcrowded with nonviolent offenders, this would not be a good thing.

Which brings us to the other point my husband brought up, which is that if the woman was in jail for doing drugs, she wouldn't have gotten pregnant. He thinks that we should be enforcing the laws we already have rather than making up new ones.

This ties into the death penalty thing. If the person that did the (capital) crime confesses to it, or there is irrefutable proof, then kill him. This is cheaper and opens up more space for people who should be jailed but aren't, thus helping the punishment system do it's job for lesser crimes.

And while we're on the discussion of forced sterilisation, lets talk about rapists and child molesters. Should the males be eunich'd? Would that really help? What about females? How does eunich'ing the males prevent them from violating in other ways (bottles, etc)?

Where does it end? Where is the line drawn? Isn't the greater good of the society worth the rights of one who willfully and consistantly breaks that society's rules?