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Board Politics & Society
Re: So much for trying to bring philosophy to the public
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username18333
on 26/08/2015, 22:44:19 UTC
Quote from: Torbjörn Tännsjö, Vox.com
You should [not] have kids. Not because it’s fun, or rewarding, or in your evolutionary self-interest.

You should [not] have kids because it’s your [ethical] duty to [not] do so.

My argument is simple. Most people live lives that are, on net, happy. For them to never exist, then, would be to deny them that happiness. And because I think we have a moral duty to m[in]imize the amount of happiness in the world, that means that we all have an obligation to make the world as [un]populated as can be.

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"[E]volutionary self-interest" (Tännsjö) renders the above absurd and, thus, its source material.