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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
The US is also the only country in the world, apart from Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, that executes children. Over 70 prisoners remain on death row in the USA for crimes committed when they were 16 or 17 years old.
Mr Mephisto
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I would hardly consider a 16 or 17 year old a "child". They are old enough that they are capable of making their own decisions and facing the consequences.
And no my idea is not complete and utter bullshit. This is a poor country with a huge population. Keeping prisoners is very expensive, why should they waste resources taking care of criminals(I mean people who commit murder, rape, and various other severe crimes, not every common theif or political prisoner)? And yes in their case I would consider mandatory abortions after a
second(i'm pretty sure they can have two kids) child to be better than the alternative, which is having the population outgrow the local food supply and have the kids die slowly from starvation and malnutrition. Just because we produce enough food to feed twice the world's population does not mean it's getting distributed all over the world. Although that problem is going to sort istself out sooner or later, the culture values male children for inheritence purposes and therefore most couples get an abortion if the child is not male, due to the limit on children allowed per person, which will lead to a great imbalance between men and women over there, so they will actually be incapable of having as many children. It sucks, but that's life.