Thread: a boy come from china

Originally Posted by mike_g

Abachler knows f* all, c'mon, he can't even post a linked list w/o bugs in it, let alone understand pinyin, or even...

Because he doesn't have to. It's pretty much an unspoken agreement on a discussion of this nature that a link serves only as a starting point for debate. Anyone wishing to follow on the debate should do their own research too if they find the links unsatisfactory or feel they need to learn more or better support their claims.

But moving on... what bothers me more about your comment is this:

Originally Posted by mike_g

Ok, I just read the one child policy link, and it says that it is estimated to have prevented 250,000,000 births [...] Once a population reaches an intolerable limit wars break out and people get killed. Killing people is just plain cruel, and wars bring instability, so its much more sensible to avoid the situation. IMHO, stupid people need brute force natural selection to guide thier race (there are still a few countries that rely on this).

On this thread alone twice, coming from two different people I have heard the argument that the end justifies the means. Twice!

And you are not alone. Lately I've seen this (or maybe it has been happening for sometime but only recently I have been paying attention) happening a little all over the news, politicians, commentators, opinion makers.

It's a revolting thought. Throw up material, even. It's an attack on everything we believe or should believe to be basic human rights. The idea that personal freedoms should be withhold in the name of a "common good" which has no way of being validated is only possible if it comes from the mind of someone who doesn't truly appreciate the gift given to them by 200 years of a struggle for freedom. Someone who takes it for granted and doesn't even made an effort to study the causes and effects of modern tyrannies.

Meanwhile, what you conveniently didn't mention in your post was the most grave reasons behind the criticism of the One Child Policy like forced abortions, sterilization, social ostracism, or economical segregation. All well documented by several Humans Rights Organizations. And that's precisely the tyranny tactics: To hide the harsher reality to justify oppression. All in the name of a certain common good of arguable validity.