From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 00:10:08 +0800
To: Jim Choate <cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Re: lack of evolutionary pressures (was Re: An end to "court (fwd)
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At 08:33 AM 8/23/97 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
>> One thing that has been tried here, but was quickly shot down by the
>> welfare lobby was making Norplant (a two ? year hormonal birth control
>> device that gets implanted subcutaneously) implants a requirement for
>> receiving welfare checks.
>
>You need to read the Constitution again, you missed something critical in
>there.

Nope, I didn't. Nowhere is the Constitution does it say that citizens have
a right to welfare money. The State is free to make virtually anything not
expressly prohibited by the Constitution a condition for providing welfare.
Including that the recipient takes positive steps to forestall the breeding
of further welfare recipients. Even making castration a precondition for
receiving welfare would be constitiutional. [I do not advocate such a step].


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