Comment by adventured
4 months ago
The single best resolution to crime is to dramatically reduce poverty.
The single best way to reduce poverty is to pay (bribe) the poor to stop having children, which ends the cycle of poverty (which is extraordinarily difficult to break and tends to trap generations). That should go hand-in-hand with free birth control, free day-after pills, free abortions, comprehensive sexual education, etc.
A large share of the bottom 1/3 in the US will never step foot outside of poverty, most of them will never hold a job on a sustained basis. Pay them to not have children, which simultaneously benefits their lives in the here and now, while preventing the mistake of bringing children into poverty. It's one of the most humane things the US could do as a society. It would very rapidly improve poverty (and reduce crime) in the US.
How about helping them out of poverty instead of subjecting them to eugenics?
Paying an entire class of people to not have children is eugenics. There is a massive line between that and increasing (free) access to reproductive services.
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