Barmy Blue's Bland Blog

I highly doubt it. While walking the dog I was reflecting on Napoleon (not the historical one, the other one) and as I was approaching home I happened upon an interesting thought. Why don't the rules and regulations of adoption apply to having a child?
Say for example a couple thinking to having a child would go through the same or a similar process to those thinking of adoption. Unfortunately I don't know the ins and outs of the whole adoption process but the gist of it should be common sense. Are the couple in a committed relationship, can they provide a stable home, do they have a good support network if something goes wrong, or even if it doesn't. Are they good financially, are they healthy, do they live in a suitable area, do they live a suitable lifestyle and so on. Surely if questions such as these were put to prospective parents and they passed surely no child in the world would be unwanted or unhappy.
Ah well, it doesn't always work like that though. 1 2 5 10 or even 20 years down the line something could happen. A sudden accident. A sudden incident. An affair. A death. A divorce. A sacking. Or something else. Besides, who would monitor all this anyway? The international bureau of home affairs. Maybe household affairs? Ah that's too long. The IBHA? Needs a more catchy acronym. The global bureau of home affairs? GBHA? Hehehehe. GBH grievous bodily harm. The organisation for making sure all households are good, perfect even (and particularly have no domestic violence) has GBH in it. That'll do. The irony is spectacular. So, with this spectacularly ironic organisation in charge of the country what would it be? Utopia? Dystopia? I know one thing. Any attempt to create a utopia will result in a dystopia unless every single person is allowed to live in their own little world. Everyone is different, has different needs, different expectations. If one person/ group/ organisation/ thing tries to unite a civilisation as a prefect society some things have to give. I know this for two reasons. 1 I studied dystopian literature and 2 it's just common sense. It's as if every human being exists purely to be different, purely to be an individual. If you take away our individuality we lose what makes us us.
Besides, couples wanting children won't be the only issue. What about people who aren't in a stable relationship? What about one night stands? Teen pregnancy? What about rape? No. Applying laws to starting a family just wouldn't work. You'd have to apply strict laws on sex instead. How the heck would you go about doing that? Chemical suppression of the human libido perhaps? Ha. If you do that no one would ever have children and a society spawned from test tube babies sounds like plagiarism to me. And an investigation, an interview process. Could you imagine that? Ah I see you are both sixteen and are thinking of sex. Well, first tell us all these intimate details of your life. Now we will probe every aspect of your lives including yourselves to make sure that you aren't lying to us. Ah, you don't want your parents to find out? Sorry, no can do. We need to make sure that if you accidentally get pregnant you have a good support network. Alternatively if you opt for sterilisation you can do it as much as you like without worry.
Sterilisation. Effectively spaying and neutering for the human population. This would be applied to anyone with a genetic flaw that could affect a baby and possibly overly promiscuous persons. And most definitely to rapists, however rapists would probably be sentenced to death anyway.
Ah, but if that were put into place imagine the number of randy teenagers that opted for sterilisation so they could do the dirty only to regret it 10 or 20 years later when they want to have a baby. besides, wouldn't spaying and neutering rather decrease the libido anyway?
But. Supposing all these little kinks were worked out. What kind of society do you think it would be? Would you be happy to live in it? I somehow doubt it. Wouldn't it be boring? Besides, if such strict regulations were put on having children they'd have to have strict laws and regulations on your whole life, monitor your whole life from birth, nay, conception to death. Any society like that is surely dystopian. You know. I think the only way to have a utopia is to reduce mankind to animals once more. Simple animal needs and wants and then let them loose in the countryside. Ah, but then again, to gain utopia you have to give something up. If we reduced ourselves to animals once more, where would our individuality be. Basically. I don't think utopia can ever exist, can it?
Let's see. I've been pondering this for about an hour now. Is it rather odd how my mind works? I think like this all the time. I've never been quite sure if it's normal or not.
I wrote all this down just for the sake of it really. Little ideas like this, once fleshed out and refined could make an excellent story. An epic novel, film, comic book, painting and so on. It could. But the question is, will it? I have ideas like this all the time and if I don't write them down they sink and sometimes never resurface. But I don't have the ability, dive or the time to turn each idea into something epic and I'd be pretty pissed if someone took these epic ideas of mine and claimed them as their own. Then again. Who's to say I'm the only one that's thought of it? Besides, if I set this idea out into the world and someone else used it, how it would turn out depends on them. If 100 people wrote about this idea none of them would come out the same. Sure there'd be similarities but they wouldn't be the same.
Eh. I've thought about this too much. Interesting how my thought process works though. This has been an insight into the mind of Bluebiird. I hope you enjoyed the tour. Please collect your shoes as you leave and make sure you didn't stick any gum under the tables.
Bluebiird out.