a man in chinos and a button down shirt
told me, passionately, how we should save
the country by sterilizing anyone
who has more than 2 kids – unless
(always an unless) they could prove
sufficient means to support them.

we have to pay for their damned healthcare
for their housing, for their clothes,
we have to pay and pay and pay –
it’s immoral. They have no right
to have kids. None.

isn’t that evil? i asked him
no. it is evil to let them keep having kids
So, we are all slaves?
We’re already slaves – we have to pay
for all of them.

Do we really?
yes.
No, we don’t. We choose to.
It seems to me that you’re saying
society owns each baby – that we are responsible

We are responsible,
he said. We are. Whether we like it
or not.

So, you have authority over my body?
You can tell me no more children? You can tell a woman
no more babies? You can abort or save
which ever baby you’d like?

Who chooses? Who decides? A bank statement?
A bureaucrat?
This isn’t freedom – this is tyranny.

THIS is tyranny, all this money
taken from me, given to this bastards
fathering 8 children by 8 different women
and all of them ending up on welfare.

Perhaps the women would keep their legs closed
if they worried more about how they’d pay?
No, they wouldn’t. The only solution
is to sterilize the punks spreading their sperm.

And you don’t see any problem with this?
No.
You don’t see the evil of it? The Nazi-germany-style horror?
No.
You don’t see the problems with making babies
into commodities?
You’re an idiot.
Fine, I’m an idiot, but you don’t see
that your solution is a path to diabolical serial killing?

…

Ok then.