Having Sown the Wind, China Will Reap the Whirlwind – Richard Gunderman

China s 1980 one-child policy, 2016 two-child policy, and 2021 three-child policy provide almost unparalleled illustrations of the folly of government overreach. They will cry out for the attention of students of politics and defenders of liberty for generations to come. These policies could have served as exhibit A in Adam Smith s characterization of the man of system in The Theory of Moral Sentiments as one who is often so enamored with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it, and imagines that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chessboard. Sadly, the pieces in China s misguided efforts at population control were real human beings whose lives were prevented, ended, distorted, and in far too many cases ruined by a government with little appreciation of its own limitations. Having sown the wind, China will be reaping the whirlwind.

via lawliberty.org