In the novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas, twelve, is chosen to be a community’s Receiver of Memories. In the event that Jonas further learns the utopian community is not as halcyon and perfect as it has always seemed. With this in mind, he decides to flee the community in order to return all the memories he has to the community. As a matter of fact, the world problem that humans are facing now is overpopulation, and although written in 1993, the novel has dealt with the problem by controlling the birth rate. Whether it was ethical or not, the matter will be weighted, but the novel had solved it, the arcane world problem of overpopulation.
Personally, I think overpopulation has led to other problems. But what exactly has led to overpopulation? “[...] is the difference between the overall birth rate and death …show more content…
Equally important, the leaders of the community control the population with “releasing” identical twins because, “‘Well, they can’t have two identical people around! Think how confusing it would be!’”, or any citizen that has three transgressions to the rules, they stopped “love” by pills, which was a trend; and people lived in the same pattern. With the intention of solving this world problem, I would somehow enforce the mandatory of education of sex, which might sound irrelevant but Japanese students are to learn about their bodies in grade school. And the one-child policy of China seems rather sensitive, as Ryerson stated the contradiction, “China’s one-child policy has been a ‘black-eye’ for the topic. [...] ‘In fact, in China, much of what they accomplished has been done through persuasion.” In conclusion, is it ethical to do such things, for it is against the laws of nature, the laws of
Personally, I think overpopulation has led to other problems. But what exactly has led to overpopulation? “[...] is the difference between the overall birth rate and death …show more content…
Equally important, the leaders of the community control the population with “releasing” identical twins because, “‘Well, they can’t have two identical people around! Think how confusing it would be!’”, or any citizen that has three transgressions to the rules, they stopped “love” by pills, which was a trend; and people lived in the same pattern. With the intention of solving this world problem, I would somehow enforce the mandatory of education of sex, which might sound irrelevant but Japanese students are to learn about their bodies in grade school. And the one-child policy of China seems rather sensitive, as Ryerson stated the contradiction, “China’s one-child policy has been a ‘black-eye’ for the topic. [...] ‘In fact, in China, much of what they accomplished has been done through persuasion.” In conclusion, is it ethical to do such things, for it is against the laws of nature, the laws of