They don't breed anyway.
Some do, and that vexes me.
Same. Why is it that you need a license to own a gun, a dog, and to drive a car, but any ******* can have a kid?
So what you're advocating is more government interference in private life?
These calls for licensure to procreate make me sick. And they come from both sides of the political spectrum.
You must not be a parent.
No, I'm not advocating for more government interference. But my POINT was that you need a license to do some things, but not THE most important job you can possibly have? Why is it that if I want a dog, I have to go get a license and fill out paperwork and take the dog to the vet, but to have a kid I didn't have to prove that I would be a capable and caring parent? Owning a dog is so not as hard as having a kid.
I wouldn't go so far as BC and say I'm for eugenics, but let me tell you...after the amount of really, truly stupid and selfish people I have seen become parents, I could be persuaded.
Nope, not a parent yet, just a former foster kid, so believe me when I say I'm well aware of how awful some people are at parenting.
The thing is, there is no foolproof way of preventing those people from becoming parents without becoming a tyrant in the process. Now everyone here is aware that freedom isn't free, but what some don't seem to realize is that the price paid isn't always borne by the military. Sometimes it's borne by the victims of shootings, paying for our freedom to bear arms. Sometimes it's borne by the victims of hate speech, paying for our right to free speech. And sometimes it's borne by children who grow up in f**ked-up households, paying for our freedom to have children without government approval.
Just as it is unconscionable to violate the liberty of the vast majority of responsible gun owners in order that we may be protected from the loonies, and just as it is unconscionable to violate the liberty of every speaker in the nation in order that we might be protected from speech that some will doubtless find hurtful, it is unconscionable to violate the liberty of every would-be parent by subjecting them to government examination in order to create a child.
The intact nuclear family is the basic unit of our society, and as such must be protected. Consequently, the burden of proof is not and cannot be placed on the leaders of that unit to prove their competence, but on any outside party attempting to engage in the destruction of said unit to prove said leaders' incompetence. Justice demands it.
Of course our system of family law is hardly just, but that's another subject for another time.
Though I personally dislike arguments from practicality (it's part and parcel of being a student of higher mathematics), let me offer you one. If the government were to license childbirth and/or parenthood, it seems obvious to me at least that the ones presiding over the examination process would be social workers. I don't know how much you know about social workers, but I feel pretty confident in saying that if this were to pass, conservatives would be banned outright from procreating. Social workers as a group are some of the most partisan leftists of any occupation in the nation (there are individual exceptions of course, just as in teaching, although fewer in number it would seem from my personal experience).
If your desire is to prevent libtards from procreating and/or raising children, licensure is the absolute worst decision you could make in furtherance of that desire.
