Here’s why China’s one-child policy was a good thing

Punctuation's your friend, pal.

 

Clearly you do not. Apparently, YF isn't the only one here who can't tell the difference between a failure in reading comprehension and flawed writing.

 

If I was asked to decide which is more irritating -- the "reading comprehension!" gambit or DW's predilection for using a particular word that starts with "n" -- I'd have to think an awfully long time.

 

Not mentioned in this thread yet, so someone has to do it. I blame the Clintons.

 

Tom Clancy wrote a brutal description of what how the one-child policy was enforced in The Bear and the Dragon.

 

Bickering about writin' and readin' skills aside, from a human rights perspective, how is a two-child limit any better than a one-child limit?

 

Well, it could lead to fewer abortions of girls, which was happening because families only had one shot to have the son they wanted. That doesn't make it OK, mind you, but at least it's something.

 

The paragraph comparing restrictions on reproductive freedom to yelling "fire" in a crowded movie theater was particularly compelling.

 

Hey, there are limits to all rights.

 

Her next column will be about the merits of two world wars per century as a method of population control.

 

You could also make the case that wars are also great for the economy, race relations and party unity!