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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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I believe that violent criminals and people with major disabilities should be sterilised. CMV

I think that for the benefit of children and others perpetrators of violent crimes and people with life or quality of life threatening inheritable disabilities should be sterilised.

I do not believe that a violent criminal should firstly hold the right to have children and secondly any offspring of that person will receive an improper and lower standard of being raised by that parent.

I also think that creating a child with the knowledge that it will be disabled in some form is wrong in the form of child's well being as well as the child being a burden on the state. I have no issue with disabled people receiving help, as everyone deserves the ability to lead a normal life - however intentionally creating suffering and burden is what i disagree with.
gpt
A couple responses:

1) We already have a child services system in place.  You're right that if a child has no parent but a violent criminal, they shouldn't be raised by that criminal- which is why they are then placed in other homes.  The system isn't 100% effective, I'll grant you, but we clearly don't allow children to be raised by violent criminals.  The child will be raised either by: 1) the other parent, 2) other family, or 3) foster care.

2) The other inherent problem in sterilization is the fact that you're now authorizing a governmental authority to have power over who is allowed to reproduce.  That's an extremely dangerous power to have.  Who defines what a "violent criminal" or "threatening disability" is?  Obviously it would have to be our legislators, since this would be a law.  While in theory it sounds good, how well do you think this would work in practice?  Do you see the danger in allowing the government to sterilize "unwanteds?"

The government has actually had similar programs in the past.  In the early to mid 1900's many "defective" (often minorities) were coerced into giving "permission" to be sterilized.  There are still people alive who were essentially forced, as young adults, to go through that process and were incapable of having children.  These were not only people that clearly should not be sterilized.  Do you then see the problem in allowing the government to determine who can or can't reproduce?