From: rsw@therandymon.com   
      
   On 2015-11-19, Hils  wrote:   
   > It could be even better to engineer some way of sterilising everyone   
   > who brings more offspring into the world than they (or anyone else)   
   > can afford, preferably before they can do the damage. It's   
   > disappointing that China has dropped its one-child policy, and even   
   > more disappointing that others did not follow suit, even if it had   
   > been done in more subtle ways. Would this discriminate against the   
   > usual (backward, primitive, absolutist, supremacist) religions? You   
   > bet...   
      
   We are not too far away from a level of technology where they can get an   
   estimate of your genetic potential at birth, and assign you a number of   
   'permitted' offspring as a result.  Sounds a bit too 'Aldous Huxley' to   
   me, but hey, desperate times call for desperate measures.   
      
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