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This sort of utilitarian calculus isn’t even believed by utilitarians. Simply having more people doesn’t make the world better (or worse.) This comment reminds

• paganel 3y ago
  > Simply having more people doesn’t make the world better That's literally what the original post says, that we should have more children alive (by less of them dying). I tried explaining how trying to have less children die will make us have fewer (alive) children as a whole. I have also not mentioned anything about utilitarianism, I was following Max Roser's logic on this (I personally find that a Northern guy like Roser writing about what Africa should do about its children is pretty colonialist, but that's not relevant to this post).