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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: bentway who wrote (211639)1/3/2007 1:01:10 AM
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I wrote, "Yes, I know that the one child policy was about preventing famine, but the thought of it, in action, the thought of the state using its might against an individual pregnant woman has always made my blood run cold, whether it's forcing her to abort or forcing her to gestate."

I understand that it was about the population statistics showing that they'd have mass starvation if they didn't do something drastic. And you understand that there were "problems with their implementation."

I have no idea what they should have done to avert famine. I just know that governments intruding into private lives, into the very private parts of their citizens... makes my blood run cold. It's a feeling, not a prescription.

Here, we have neither impending mass famine nor too few citizens, as it happens.
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