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> his children are sentenced to 10 to 15 years of school Who are, by the way, not going to have children themselves. So the problem will eventually fixed itsel
by raincole 5mo ago
> his children are sentenced to 10 to 15 years of school
Who are, by the way, not going to have children themselves. So the problem will eventually fixed itself.
- irjustin 5mo agoI remember the story of the man who sued his parents for being born because he didn't consent to being born[0]. While as absurd as it is, as I navigate life, I legitimately ponder the question whether it is ethical to have children or not. In my aging, I am more unsure of the answer. [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-47154287 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-47154287
- roenxi 5mo agoThere is also the reverse - is it ethical not to have children? Maybe the hypothetical children want to exist.
- Supermancho 5mo ago[dead]
- shawn_w 5mo agoThat reminds me of James Morrow's This Is The Way The World Ends. After a nuclear apocalypse wipes out most of humanity, the ghosts of now-will-never-be-born future people hold the survivors to trial because they're ticked off at losing their opportunity to live.
- kleene_op 5mo agoThere is only one ethical way to solve that moral issue: Schrödinger birthing
- latexr 5mo agoThat doesn’t work, on multiple levels. Existing is a prerequisite to wanting; you cannot want if you do not exist. But even if you ignore that, it’s not immediately ethical or unethical to do or not do something just because someone else wants it. But even if you ignore that too, there’s no way of knowing that child won’t be the next genocidal despot. And even if you ignore all that, you could never birth even a fraction of everyone who could ever be born, since those depend on genetics and you can never have every combination of human mating with the other half.