General Discussion

People now live incredibly longer than ever before. Why not a euthanasia policy to control population, eliminating the sick and old, who use up a lot of resources.

Of course, I condone neither mandatory birth policies nor what I've shockingly suggested above. Governments should not be in the business of telling people how or when to procreate or how long to live.

Your intentions I'm sure are sincere, but they have consequences: you need to think about where the line can be drawn in using policy to control population. And of course, you can't draw a line. The moral implications are huge.

There are options to consider other than restricting people's private reproductive rights. Education is one; scientific research and policy efforts to find ways to sustain and spread resources is another.

I think your post is paternalistic, judgmental, ethnocentric, and frankly scary. And also sexist: China's one-child policy has led to the extermination or export of female children. Yes, if people can have only one child in China they want a boy. Girls are aborted, abandoned, given up for adoption to foreigners (Jeebus, how many people do you know who have Chinese daughters: I know at least five). And now China has an extremely skewed population of males, creating other social problems.

It's a terrible policy, and one you'd never accept in a Western country like ours. Yet you advocate it for the poor breeding natives.