Should low income couples be sterilized so they can't procreate?

Question

Low income doesn't necessarily mean welfare. If you like restrictions on the freedom to have children, maybe you should move to China.

Answer 1

Seems to me that somewhere in the far distant past (1939 to 1945 to be exact) we fought a large terrible war that evolved from a group of mentally deficient men (mostly) who liked ideas such as the one put forward above.....60 million deaths later "Our Side" (the Western Democracies) won and we executed or sent to jail those who put into action such ideas as stated above.......obviously bad ideas seem to have a strange insane life of their own......

Answer 2

No that's inhumane, anti freedom and plane fascist.
But that idea fits perfectly in the present conservative agenda of Social Darwinism.
The American right tries to push an agenda of uncompromising Social Darwinism.If you can't afford it,you don't deserve to get it,that's the whole idea in a nutshell.

Social Darwinism, term coined in the late 19th century to describe the idea that humans, like animals and plants, compete in a struggle for existence in which natural selection results in “survival of the fittest.” Social Darwinists base their beliefs on theories of evolution developed by British naturalist Charles Darwin. Some social Darwinists argue that governments should not interfere with human competition by attempting to regulate the economy or cure social ills such as poverty. Instead, they advocate a laissez-faire political and economic system that favors competition and self-interest in social and business affairs. Social Darwinists typically deny that they advocate a “law of the jungle.” But most propose arguments that justify imbalances of power between individuals, races, and nations because they consider some people more fit to survive than others.

This is jungle capitalism,survival of the fittest.It also shows most of the American right isn't pro life but pro birth.Once you're out of the womb you better have parents with money or you're on your own.
It's unhealthy for any form of Democracy if big money and political parties are in bed together
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes strong than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

That's the issue here.The American right ranting and raving socilaism is gonna take over America with no basis in reality while they are pushing social Darwinism,According to ThinkQuest:
Social Darwinist thinking stems from the fact that the theory falls into the “naturalistic fallacy,” which consists of trying to derive an ought statement from an is statement. For example, the fact that you stubbed your toe this morning does not logically imply that you ought to have stubbed your toe! The same argument applies to the Social Darwinists’ attempt to extend natural processes into human social structures. This is a common problem in philosophy, and it is commonly stated that it is absolutely impossible to derive ought from is (though this is still sometimes disputed); at the very least, it is impossible to do it so simply and directly as the Social Darwinists did.

Answer 3

I think all baby boys should be sterilized at birth so that they cannot procreate! They turn into men who make children who they abandon anyway. So why not? Ok, well, we could have a law that every 1 in a million can but, they have to sign a paper that says they will be an excellent father and spend the rest of their life caring for that child! Yes, I am brilliant!

Answer 4

No, but maybe people on gubment cheese should be put on temporary birth control.