The Giver Ethical Issues

In the story The Giver by Lois Lowry, a utopian society emphasizes sameness in all aspects of life. Citizens obey rules that eliminate everything from their feelings to their choice of their devoted spouses whom they must spend their whole life with. These rules were created to eliminate world problems such as poverty, refugees, and world hunger. The World’s most prominent problem today however is world hunger. I believe, the origin of this is overpopulation. A possible ethical solution to this problem is to create a law allowing each family to consists only a maximum of three children.
In my opinion the world’s biggest problem is world hunger because, it causes 45% of deaths in children under five each year. In fact hunger and malnutrition are in fact the #1 risk to health worldwide - greater AIDs, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. In the United States alone there is an estimate of about 795 million people, or one in nine, were suffering from chronic undernourishment in 2014-2016 . I believe the origin of this problem is overpopulation. The next crisis humanity will face will be a shortage of global food
“Each birth giver is only allowed to give birth to three children and if there are any twins, triplets, etc born they are weighed and released.” But, they don’t just only release new children born into the world, but also elders that reach their fulfilled age. I believe this solution is ethical, it helps end so many problems, but some believe releasing people is wrong. Just like Jonas, as stated in the book, “Jonas felt a ripping sensation inside himself, the feeling of terrible pain clawing its way forward to emerge in a cry.” I believe this solution is right becauses there has been so many world problems eliminated in their community including world