In “My moderate dictatorship where people would actually want to live,” I have to recognize that, no matter how much utilitarian sense they may seem to make under conditions of overpopulation, nobody likes forced abortions, plus their implementation is prone to ugly policy manipulation from various fringe interests.
In “My misguided dictatorship where I try to adjust the rules on a case-by-case basis, and end up being creepily intrusive in everyday affairs,” the obligatoriness of the abortion would take into account how much emotional investment is already attached to that pregnancy.
In “My dictatorship when I’m having a bad hair day and I’m feeling grumpy,” I would take that emotional investment into account and write it off as a sunk cost.
Suppose you keep finding babies, and you know with some dictatorial certainty that law-abiding citizens take in the foundlings instead of having children of their own? Would it not mean that you have established a very efficient system of genetical parasitism?..
In “My absolute dictatorship,” yes.
In “My moderate dictatorship where people would actually want to live,” I have to recognize that, no matter how much utilitarian sense they may seem to make under conditions of overpopulation, nobody likes forced abortions, plus their implementation is prone to ugly policy manipulation from various fringe interests.
In “My misguided dictatorship where I try to adjust the rules on a case-by-case basis, and end up being creepily intrusive in everyday affairs,” the obligatoriness of the abortion would take into account how much emotional investment is already attached to that pregnancy.
In “My dictatorship when I’m having a bad hair day and I’m feeling grumpy,” I would take that emotional investment into account and write it off as a sunk cost.
Suppose you keep finding babies, and you know with some dictatorial certainty that law-abiding citizens take in the foundlings instead of having children of their own? Would it not mean that you have established a very efficient system of genetical parasitism?..
That’s an interesting attitude.
I’d stick with birth control in the water and hefty fines, myself.