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I don't mean to show a lack of respect for parents and their good will. However, could we say that "you at least have to play to not lose" is a particularly se
by mocamoca 3y ago
I don't mean to show a lack of respect for parents and their good will.
However, could we say that "you at least have to play to not lose" is a particularly selfish reason for having children?
Here, "Playing" is making sure the parents will have caregivers, not that the children will live happy.
If the current situation is not worrying enough to rule out having happy kids, what would be the threshold?
(Not a rhetorical question)
- Vecr 3y ago> If the current situation is not worrying enough to rule out having happy kids, what would be the threshold? (Not a rhetorical question) There is no threshold. Yes, I know Yudkowsky's position, not even there. > Here, 'Playing' is making sure the parents will have caregivers, not that the children will live happy. Parents having caregivers hardly comes into it at all.
- dsign 3y ago> Parents having caregivers hardly comes into it at all. For me, it does, an awful lot. Being a caregiver to my parents has implied a lot of existential suffering and emotional agony. Think about it: the people who raised you are going to die slowly and perhaps painfully and you are going to see it without being able to do anything. I feel I would be very cruel by giving that future to a child I love.
- Vecr 3y agoThat's either going to happen or it's not, but I don't think everyone being dead is an acceptable way to force it to be wrong.