I know I don't. That's not good or bad, it just is a simple opinion/sentiment. It's not an ethical question either. Ethics are about informing our actions, not

I know I don't. That's not good or bad, it just is a simple opinion/sentiment. It's not an ethical question either. Ethics are about informing our actions, not our opinions about how things are regardless of our actions. Accidents happen, people get sick and die, etc. All of them eventually. Sucks for the people involved when that happens of course. And that's a reason to work to prevent/delay the things that kill us. But not because of their future offspring. Nature has this nice self regulating principle where species try to procreate as much as needed to sustain or grow the population while the rest of nature tries to treat that as manna from heaven (i.e. food). That cycle might just be a bit out of wack with our species judging from the explosive growth in the last century. We have few natural predators left that are hunting and eating us. Many of the people that fail to die end up procreating and that offspring is collectively becoming a burden on our planet. 8 billion and counting apparently. At the same time we figured out how to have fun without committing to more offspring (i.e. birth control). So, an actual ethical question directly related to the titular question is whether it is ethical to use birth control. In many places people opt into that (with some level of enthusiasm even). In other places it is enforced/strongly encouraged by governments, which raises a few other ethical issues. But overall the effect is that our populations start shrinking as wealth and prosperity increase and more people refrain from procreating as much as they would have otherwise. China no longer needs to enforce their former one child policy. They only needed that while they were poor. Now India, which has no such policy, is taking over as the largest country by population. They are still growing rapidly. And more so in the poorer regions. But it suggests to me that the ethical thing is to actually promote wealth and prosperity everywhere. People live nicer lives, make more informed choices, and they procreate less (i.e. only when they really want to). Might cause a few individuals to never exist but it might also make it easier to fix our planet for the rest of us. Sort of the repugnant option without actually being all that repugnant.