Switzerland is to hold a landmark vote on a right-wing party’s proposal to restrict the nation’s population to 10 million, amid divisions over immigration.
The proposal, put forward by the country’s largest political grouping the Swiss People’s Party (SVP), would require the government to act before the population – currently at 9.1 million – rises to the proposed 10 million upper limit.
If the vote, due to be held on June 14, is passed, the government would have to refuse entry to newcomers including asylum seekers and the families of foreign residents once the population reaches 9.5 million.
If the population hits 10 million, the government would be forced to end its free-movement agreement with the European Union (EU), which is Switzerland’s largest trading partner.
None! I didn’t even hint at a forced population reduction.
In the developed world, fewer people are having children and those that do are having smaller families. That means instead of a worker supporting both his parents and children they only need to support their parents. When the parent dies there is now more land and resources so things like real estate gets cheaper. Fewer workers means each worker is more valuable and can demand more pay from the ownership class.
I have no fucking idea how stating this gets construed into meaning genocide.
(supporting doesn’t necessarily mean direct support but through their job that helps everyone in society and taxes that go to schools and healthcare.)
Your response, combined with your original statement of
brings us to:
See question 2: which group of people do you want to tell aren’t allowed to have kids?
A woman’s right to birth control isn’t forcing anyone.
There are many things that are necessary but that doesn’t mean forcing people.
Clever to try and make this about a woman’s right to use birth control (which also implies the corollary of a woman’s right to not use it.), but your assertion is that the population control is necessary.
Controlling things means making people comply when they don’t.
Also, what’s you’re goal here: To have people just decide to choose not to have kids? In your mind what people should choose not to have kids? What happens when people choose to have kids anyway?
Which is, you know, how biology and biological systems work. As long as people exist: they’re gonna fuck. When they fuck, there are gonna be kids.