Saturday, July 08, 2006

A really modest proposal

Completely unrelated to my last post but completely on the topic of making things better:
How to improve society

My basis is this:
First, bad parents exist. Abusive ones, mean nasty ones. Its a fact.
Second, good parents exist. Nice ones, loving ones who raise up good children. Its a fact.
Third, there exists some difference in quality between good and bad parents.
Fourth, reducing the number of bad parents would increase the proportion of good children.
Fifth, good children have a higher tendency to become good parents.

My proposal is this (given a world where I have control and could propose such a solution):
First, create a completely reversible cheaply-done reliable sterilization procedure.
Second, offer (as a government) a reward to individuals seeking to become sterilized. Lets say $500.
Third, offer the procedure reversing the sterilization at a significantly higher fee. Lets say $2000.
Thats it. Its the solution to many of the worlds problems.

People who just want to get it on and not have kids get a little free money and security.
People who later decide they are ready for the committment to have kids and are able to support them would be able to have the procedure reversed.
People who make rash decisions and want easy money or those unable to save up enough money to have the procedure reversed would not become parents. My assumption (and it is a bold one) is that though some good parents may be lost to sterilization, mostly people who would become bad parents are prevented from conceiving. These people would likely be drug addicts, debt-a-holics and the selfish.

Sound good? Vote for me in the next election for Supreme Dictator.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow, what a great idea! You should become supreme dictator!

9:29 AM  

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