I think you, and others here, are forgetting the amazing up side to a country that controls a giant space death ray. It's kind of like asking Iran why they keep trying to make nuclear weapons. I dunno, why would a nation want the ability to surgically melt building size targets anywhere on the hemisphere?
Given the ability to automate production, its not really a bad thing for the population to decrease. Of course the process of decreasing and the sociatal adjustments are going to be... difficult.
It was hand holding for the politically opposed viewer. Just saying the law doesn't make the point to those who have a more narrow view of what asylum is.
I think you, and others here, are forgetting the amazing up side to a country that controls a giant space death ray. It's kind of like asking Iran why they keep trying to make nuclear weapons. I dunno, why would a nation want the ability to surgically melt building size targets anywhere on the hemisphere?
Given the ability to automate production, its not really a bad thing for the population to decrease. Of course the process of decreasing and the sociatal adjustments are going to be... difficult.
I'm trying to think of a real world example of government breeding growth that's gone wrong, but I can't think of any.
There's plenty of examples of breeding control that have gone horrific of course. I just can't think of the opposite example.
It was hand holding for the politically opposed viewer. Just saying the law doesn't make the point to those who have a more narrow view of what asylum is.