- 19 Feb 2012 21:55
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Of course my argument is based on practicality.
But your answer doesn't tell me how - in this scenario - we are supposed to give all these children jobs when they grow up, nor does it tell us how the treasury is going to look when inevitably unemployment would be through the roof in 25 years (too many people in the country, population did not track to the economy since you broke the link between the woman and her own ovaries), all of whom we would have to place on Jobseekers Allowance (social programme) or an Employment Protection Programme (social programme plus fiscal injection).
Meanwhile, having such a large reserve army of labour would kill the incentive for companies to develop labour-saving devices or more efficient processes, since they'd see a large population and assume - wrongly - that they can relax, thus adopting the very lazy strategies that will make them go out of business later when competition hits them from overseas and the state runs out of money to subsidise their failures.
Furthermore, wages would be in the floor due to more people bidding for the same jobs, and so quality of life would fall and personal debts would rise and saving rates would fall, which would negatively affect bond purchases and tax revenues and further deplete the government's ability to pay for things, so it would perhaps have to turn to foreign lenders.
When that perfect storm combines with the pressures on public infrastructure and rising crime, someone will realise that we basically are a nation with a ballooning population of useless eaters and a contracting economy with no hope of ever paying off any of our debts, so the IMF would step in and lend us money on the condition that we dismantle our social services and social security systems.
As quality of life plunges into the floor and the global resource crunch hits us, the interest rates on our borrowing would just keep rising and we'd have to put bond yields into the stratosphere to get anyone to consider buying them. A massive sell off of our bonds, currency, and etc, plus hyperinflation would then turn us into a completely broke laughingstock of the world, which would then be starving and taking UN Food Aid.
And all because someone decided that every sperm is 'sacred'.
This scary scenario illustrates why opposing abortion and opposing birth control, is a disastrous idea.
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