“Having conception be based on random selection” fails at “letting people have as many kids as they want” so hard it’s not even funny.
Like, you do realise that deciding who gets to have kids via lottery has exactly zero relation to letting them have the number they want, right? You are necessarily going to force some people to have fewer kids than they want, or some to have more kids than they want, or probably both.
I mean, as long as we have democracy, things are going to go one of two ways:
1) There will be a lot of people from groups who are currently minorities and the political landscape will shift and there may end up being laws which fuck you over and maybe become bad enough to be dystopian, or-
2) Massively invasive fertility controls or genocide get implemented to ensure that we definitely have a dystopia.
Which basically boils down to “Democracy sucks when you’re not in a powerful coalition”, which is also the status quo that people currently in powerful positions don’t recognise. This is also a major reason why countries limit immigration. It sucks when you end up in the cluster on which the laws are forced and from which the rents are sought.
Solution here, it seems to me, is to end the state - but that’s its own can of worms.
Someone has alerted me to the possible interpretation of “you are allowed to have kids, just with random genetic material rather than yours”.
My apologies for mistaking one incredibly stupid idea that no one would actually like for another incredibly stupid idea that no one would actually like. I am truly mortified by the magnitude of my error.
I thought anon that thought their policy would actually lead to people having the children they want. I was wrong. This anon wants people to raise as many children as they want, while having none of the specific children they want, because kids are fungible resources.
But at least they don’t want anything that’ll be bad for the few people who prefer to adopt! They only want to fuck over 99% of people! That’s better than originally expected!
When most people no longer think cuckolding is bad, then anon can come back to me.
Something ridiculous just occurred to me, probably won’t work as a solution, but…
Lots of people aren’t going to want to live forever. So if we do hand out the ability to have kids by lottery, rather than handing out kids themselves by lottery, this means that eventually, if you live an infinite amount of time, you can have an infinite amount of kids.
This doesn’t actually solve the preferences thing though, insomuch as those preferences are genetic. And I doubt the kind of people that want to have lots of children would want to have those genes “patched” in their children.