You created the conditions by which harm may befall them, just like the school builder in my example constructed a school that may collapse. I don't k...
I disagree. Clearly if one makes and sets the bomb to explode, they are the cause, or at least a significant part of it. It is an act. Creating childr...
As for inaction: as I've argued before on this thread, inaction/non-interference does not cause harm. The drowning man does not drown because I did no...
One has a kindergarten constructed. One knows the kindergarten isn't constructed well and will collapse at some point in the future. Can one evade res...
I just thought it was time to let some others share their ideas, since I had been talking way too much already and felt I was hijacking the thread. I ...
Finding excuses not to have to deal with the dilemma is not a very convincing way of solving it. The answer is so obvious too, which is probably why y...
The second comes forth from the first. The first takes precedence, but there may be situations conceivable where it is justified to impose. We're expl...
This is exactly the point - the inaction did not cause anything. And just because one is aware of the drowning, it doesn't make one the cause. I am su...
It certainly isn't acceptable by default. Perhaps in emergency situations? But even then I would argue that one is obligated to be certain (beyond a r...
Non-interference does not have consequences. If I see a man drowning in the ocean and for whatever reason choose not to try and save him, then his dro...
No, but when you say: It seems to imply some duty to pursue these things (minimizing harm to others and acting for the welfare of others), to which I ...
Sure. "The world" should have done as they saw fit at that particular time. A lot of your replies to me seem to assume I have all sorts of opinions ab...
My chief concern was never the minimizing of harm to others (besides that which might be caused by myself), or the welfare of others. I see those as n...
None of those things. I'm quite happy. But I'm also aware of the misery that exists. My concern is specifically with the morality of the act of imposi...
Let's suppose for a moment that there is a person, A, who out of the goodness of their heart makes it their business to interfere in the lives of othe...
Why would that require omniscience? You're saying for one's intention to match the outcome it requires omniscience? Perhaps. It seems to me that talki...
Why not? While I would argue ignorance is relevant to one's capacity to bring about intended outcomes, I would agree it is a "neutral" factor. However...
Not necessarily. I can ask the same question even if the odds were, say, 10:1. A gamble with good odds is still a gamble. The question is whether in t...
Which is precisely the issue. It is largely out of the control of the parents who make the decision, which seems to me a shaky basis upon which to mak...
I agree with this line of thought. And if one's goal is to do good onto others, one should be humble and seek to do so in ways that are within one's c...
The well-being of the person is unknown prior to the unfoldment of their life. Getting the ball rolling is ultimately the parents' choice and no one e...
How much influence can a parent be said to have on the consequence of their actions in regards to the well-being of their child? Even the best-equippe...
Given how confidently this argument is parroted on every antinatalism thread, I was expecting you to have something to say in its defense. This is jus...
What have you to say for the group of people who are genuinely miserable as a result of their parents' choices, and for whom it can be said their pare...
That's not very hard to refute. Let's say I plant a timebomb in the ground in a place where I know a town will flourish two-hundred years from now. Wh...
This really is the core of the problem, and in my opinion it is an open and shut case. The usual route people take to solve it is by arguing that the ...
Realism is a tool for understanding international politics. What one does with that understanding is up to them. To say a realist does not have any va...
I am concerned with how states act and why they act that way. I'm no policymaker. If you want my non-realist opinion: states are run by crooks. Period...
As a realist I'll say that that's exactly what they'll do. (Note: there is no "should" in there) And lowe and behold, you just summed up United States...
I don't need to try, since the realist - idealist split has been something that has characterized international politics for a long time and are conce...
No, given the geopolitical context in which trouble in Ukraine and Crimea started, which goes back to at least 2008, the fault is predominantly with t...
No, of course not. But my moral judgement is irrelevant. I have no opinion on what the Ukrainians should do. The United States and Europe could have d...
What a joke that you of all people should say that. I'm not making it personal. I'm calling apples apples. In this thread we are debating on Ukraine a...
That's the essence of the idealist approach to international politics. When states that we shouldn't negotiate with terrorists, on behalf of whose ide...
Ok then, no negotiations. "We" are going to "beat the Russians", and who do you suppose is going to make that sacrifice to uphold your ideals? I'm gue...
You are not everyone, nor do you have any influence on everyone. Doubtful. Why do so many fanatical sports fans get so mad when their team loses? Beca...
Yes. You objectively have no rational stake in the survival of the human race. It will survive with you, or without you, and none of us will be around...
No. If for whatever reason it could be accertained beforehand that a pregnancy would result in a child with deficiences (because of incest for example...
That apparently even by your own estimation we're only talking about a relatively small number of people making voluntary decisions, does little to ex...
Someone is clearly being forced. Whether it's against their will is unknowable. So I don't know how you can say that is "indisputable". I'm disputing ...
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