I can understand why governments would push for something like this after 9/11, though it of course goes without saying that this is a totally unacceptable violation of someone’s basic rights. It also goes without saying that governments always want more control over their citizens, but what exactly are they so worried might happen, right now, in 2025 or the near future?

  • HugeNerd
    31·
    6 months ago

    Good, we can’t sustain even the 8 billion useless eaters we have now. I welcome a decline to 4.

    • angrystego@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      A decline by means of heightened education, better quality of life and available contraception like we see in developed countries would be nice. But this is going to be nasty, famine and wars - you don’t want that, no one wants that.

      • HugeNerd
        1·
        6 months ago

        I don’t want to be fat and old, and yet…

          • HugeNerd
            1·
            6 months ago

            I only have one body, I didn’t go from one to eight while saying it’s indefinitely expandable.