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I know this isn't how it would work but im just picturing some one woman giving birth, the doctor hands her the newborn and she holds it for the first time... Some man walks in wearing a black suit and pulls out a gun. He shoots the baby through the head. "sorry that was the 10 million and 1 Swiss child, we have a limit!"
Clearly it would be more humane to take out the oldest Swiss person instead of the youngest
Much better idea: kill the richest person and distribute their wealth evenly amongst the rest of the population, public infrastructure, and social programs
Repeat until there's no billionaires, no poverty, and nobody has to go without anything essential for living in a modern society.
this is switzerland, silly. they're more likely to kill the poorest first.
It's Switzerland. You could close your eyes and shoot the bullet blindly, you would probably hit a billionaire.
Out of all the countries in the world that shouldn't be implementing population caps, it's Switzerland. The entirety economy is based on people and corporations moving there.
That could be worse...watching tv on the couch with your spouse, you both laugh at the joke suddenly the door opens and your partners head splatters everywhere. The man in a black suit says "sorry, the tompsons just had a baby"...
Statistically it's more common for the oldest person to be a widow(er)
But if the Swiss population started to get out of control maybe
Probably true but not as funny to picture...
Nah the nation-wide vote is the most moral approach. The list of candidates is selected from trending posts on social media, then the whole nation decides whom to kill in a democratic way.
I don't know... I'm also considering completely random.
The dice show.... 543, John go kill your mother,sorry for your loss.
You might find Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s story "2BR02B" ("to be or not to be") an interesting read. It's not exactly like your theory, but it's not too far off.
Love death robots pop squad was also similar.
Hmm, I've liked some of his writing so I'll add this to my list.
This initiative was a conservative movement.
It would have been used as a cudgel to oppress immigrants or to target the out group.
And when they run out of immigrants: Rules is rules
Yeah, I understood that. But a hard limit on population is crazy. You would need to have some way of killing people for each person born. That's disregarding the fact that people have a beneficial use. They can help in food, service, manufacturing, business to business stuff.
But taken to the extreme if some person in a suit just going around the country killing people for each person born...
I don't know how many hospitals are in Switzerland or how big they are but it's definitely more than 10 a day so imagine someone just driving around all day yelling at traffic and any delay because they need to report how many people they killed that week and praying it's not a busy week in the maternity ward...
Or just denying citizenship or deporting. You know, other forms of state based violence
But how can that be sustainable? Ok sure you set up a limit of 5000 immigrants per year. Fine you deny everyone at the border over that limit.
How do you limit population? Either kill people or prevent them from having sex...logistics of both are pretty hard.
People have babies. That increases population.
Xenophobia and anti-immigrant policies are now present in almost every developed country.
Fucking xenophobes in Japan are not helping in that they're bent on keeping racial purity and "peace and order", anxious to kick out the Kurds, but at the cost of their falling population, growing numbers of shut-ins, and insane costs of living.
Are there Kurds in Japan? That's news to me.
Unfortunately, xenophobia is rising in many parts of the world, even in countries with negligible number of immigrants like Japan. I'm even surprised that in Chile, anti-migrant is a sticking point on their recent elections, even though they barely have any immigrants and many Chileans are even leaving.
I am blaming social media for amplifying polarisation. The elites are doing what they can to divide the population while they steal from our pockets because we're too distracted.