Here's what I'm curious about, and it's something you faintly hinted at in the second chapter of the story, but I'm not sure how intentional it was or how far you were planning on going with it...is there an inherent pressure on fertile couples to have babies whether they want to or not? As in, you're capable to reproduce when so many aren't, ergo you must reproduce because it's your duty. If you have a government that is actively regulating who's allowed to have children, does it then make the childbearing choices for those who have been deemed suitable?
Aside: if there's an inherent abuse possible within a lottery system, I would think that it would be rigging that system in order to "reward" those that have curried favor (made generous contributions, maybe...?) with the members of government, rather than a development of black market mass-murder-for-hire...or perhaps the two in tangent.
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Date: 22 Nov 2004 05:41 pm (UTC)Aside: if there's an inherent abuse possible within a lottery system, I would think that it would be rigging that system in order to "reward" those that have curried favor (made generous contributions, maybe...?) with the members of government, rather than a development of black market mass-murder-for-hire...or perhaps the two in tangent.