MCN wrote:Eighthours wrote:MCN wrote:I live in a sinkbox estate. My cousin isn't the smartest girl in the world, and neither is her boyfriend. However, their son is so far ahead of his age, it is unbelievable.
There are fortunate exceptions.
However, by introducing breeding licenses, you are effectively denying these exceptions the chance of even living.
And that's the problem. The obvious solution is allowing everyone to live... until they reach an age where they can be tested as to their "worth". Those who fail are executed.
Stop... Nazitime!You see the problem, I'm sure!
Trouble is, there's no solution that's currently particularly palatable. Properly educating everyone remedially once the damage has been done is waaaaaaay too expensive (and, for many, simply won't work as they're actually too thick). Taking kids away from bad parents is an infringement of their rights. But something needs to be done, as the bad, thick parents have equally terrible kids, and those kids breed, and each subsequent generation becomes worse and more numerous. In the old days, we'd have had a nice conscription-tastic war in which they would have become arrow fodder. Not anymore.
I'm up for some kind of obligatory parental worthyness test if it stops a few little Jeremy Kyle-baiters being born, I have to say. The needs of the many, etc.