It seems really important to note that the author is talking about a voluntary option in exchange for immigration as opposed to a mandatory process.
As “Ives Parr” confirmed in this thread, this is not a “voluntary option”. This is the state making it illegal for certain people — including people who are not immigrants — to have children because of their “non-Western culture”. It is a mandatory, coercive process.
I can’t see this particular form of birth restriction as particularly more egregious than restricting someone’s ability to migrate from one country to another. I think both restrictions are immoral, and I can understand why someone would see birth restrictions as more immoral, but I don’t understand why it would be so much more immoral that we should have ~98% closed borders and ~0% birth restrictions when both can be used to achieve the same ends.
Another quote that hopefully makes it even clearer:
If you are worried that an immigrant may be more likely to vote Democrat/Left, commit a crime, retain their non-Western culture or be on welfare and believe that it is ethical to exclude them from migrating for these reasons, why is it not ethical to prevent someone from giving birth if their offspring are prone to all of these behaviors? There are people within the native country which are, statistically speaking, likely to grow up and vote Democrat/Left, commit crimes and be on welfare. For example, if someone’s parents both voted Democrat/Leftist and their parent’s parents voted Democrat/Left, they are probably more prone to voting Democrat/Left than an immigrant. I think some will say that they do want to restrict birth but can’t because it is not politically feasible, but imagine that you could have full control to implement this policy for the sake of the hypothetical.
Also, a quote from “Ives Parr” in this very thread:
I was not trying to implement a strange voluntary option.
As “Ives Parr” confirmed in this thread, this is not a “voluntary option”. This is the state making it illegal for certain people — including people who are not immigrants — to have children because of their “non-Western culture”. It is a mandatory, coercive process.
A key quote from the Substack article:
Where does it talk about non-immigrants or non-voluntary in this quote?
Another quote that hopefully makes it even clearer:
Also, a quote from “Ives Parr” in this very thread: