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| Dec 7, 2014 at 18:03 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | I think you need a queen to socially lead people to breed in balance. You want a utopia, so "I want to have a child, but the law wont let me," is undesirable. You need something to make people want to do what is good for their country, not a law that forces them to (forced utopia is one well known class of distopia in science fiction). Laws that force people to do good for their country tend to result in distopias. As your democracy example shows, things that look like utopias for a minute can quickly devolve into distopias. | |
| Dec 7, 2014 at 16:47 | comment | added | Frayt | I think the problem is without a dictatorship it is extremely difficult to get people not to breed excessively. The whole idea of this utopia hinges on the fact there would be a relatively small amount of people, but a large amount of agricultural land leading to a plentiful supply of food. If the population increases, more space is needed for housing and less land can be used for agriculture. In a democracy for example, people could simply vote to abolish any laws, policies or restrictions on child birth, because people often think they know what's best for them. | |
| Dec 7, 2014 at 4:13 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | It is much easier to convince people to want to have the right number of children than it is to declare "thou shalt have 2 children per couple" and somehow still end up calling it a utopia. | |
| Dec 7, 2014 at 1:58 | comment | added | Emmett R. | I understand where you're going with this answer, but I don't think your example policy really works here. Trying to control human reproductive habits is really, really hard. As an example, see China's 'one child policy'. While it works to some degree, it certainly isn't as effective as it was hoped. It was originally supposed to reduce the population of China to 700M within a generation, but the loopholes, dodgers, and cheaters have kept China's population rising continually. tl;dr If people want babies, they'll make it happen. | |
| Dec 6, 2014 at 22:59 | history | answered | Cort Ammon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |