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We already have a LOT of laws decide who is and is not allowed/able/encouraged to have a LOT of other very basic rights:

Food, shelter, healthcare, education, sex.

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Other than the last one, those are entitlements requiring the government provide you with things, not rights.

Maybe putting the point in different words will resonate better:

There are already numerous examples of authority stepping in to “save people from themselves.”

What motivates your desire to control other people?

In the end it costs me money, time, and grief to fix your screwups. Example: people who don’t vaccinate can cause problems for the rest as diseases spread more quickly and with greater impact than otherwise. Clear?

Yes... that’s right. Good luck doing that with procreation in anything but a dictatorship type government.

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