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Originally Posted by Firestormalpha
I'm inclined to disagree with that assessement. Being allowed to have only 1 or 2 (under special cicumstances) would in my opinion make the ones you have that much more valued.
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From a Western perspective, yes. Maybe even from a Chinese parent's perspective if not for the tendency to drown their less valued baby girls to try for a more valued baby boy...
I think Sparhawk's theory holds water. In a country with so many people, one life (adult, child, whatever) may not be worth quite as much as it would be in less populated places, and that is just from the perspective of the normal people in that country. For the abnormal people, just as it is elsewhere in the world, it's fair to say that one life may be worth far less still.
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Originally Posted by Firestormalpha
Actually they've been considering repealing that law, because their research shows that current trends will cut chinese population in half within the next 10 years.
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It's basic math that if it takes two people to make one person and only one person allowed to be made for every two people, then at some point the population will halve. But is there really
that many people about to fall off the perch in China? Even 50 years seems quite impossible.
Far more likely that the old law would be abolished to
increase population in order to sustain China's economic growth.