Andrew4Handel

I think my own preferences are completely irrelevant to my hypothetical offspring preferences. I think if your offspring share your values and prefere...

You are causing them to exist. Combining your DNA and you partners is using physical forces to make someone exist. Like the way a potter forces preexi...

You do not need direct access to a persons experiences to make a plausible claim about other peoples suffering. Also there are peoples own reports of ...

One argument against a God is that if he exists he must be evil for creating all the suffering in the world or allowing all the suffering including ch...

What about experts in child welfare and child psychology? Having a child is doing something to someone else and it is not a case of personal freedom. ...

You don't believe in experts? You would allow a random person to do heart surgery on you?

I have found that people who claim life is so desirable because of pleasure do not advocate forcing people to have children to increase levels of plea...

I'm not talking about the issue of criminality I am just examining the reasons people have for having children and what the characteristics of these r...

There was a case in America where a couple had a child with the explicit intention of sexual abusing it. They received very long prisons terms and I b...

I could probably come up with a thousand arguments against having children or reasons not to, yet I can't think of a compelling reason why someone sho...

Why not? Do you think pedophiles should be allowed to have children. Drug users and Alcoholics? I can give a common personal example here. As Christia...

I think you can logically challenge a person reasons for having a child or lack of reasons. Unless you believe no one needs to ever justify having a c...

Maybe he means psychological survival?

The right to live seems problematic because we can die at any time from illness of accident. You could restate it as the right not to be murdered. It ...

I think it is pointless having children for one main reason which is death. If there is no afterlife everything you did in life will be forgotten and ...

I know. But if someone does not have children they are not concerned about the survival of a part of themselves. they don't feel the need to have chil...

There is mutual and neutral exploitation. Division of labor can be mutual or neutral exploitation. Likewise friendships, family and social groups. Als...

You don't need children to survive. There are hermits that live and die away from civilization. When most people had children throughout history they ...

There are lots of people that die prematurely or suffer life long illness. Having a child does not prevent you dying of cancer, having long term menta...

I don't think there is any reason to have children. Lots of people do not have children. It is quite possible not to have children and it is not inevi...

I think you can meaningfully measure suffering and I think that is substantially difference than recording opinion or preference. I am not sure what y...

You bring something into the realm of legality. Some things are neither legal or illegal. To confer a right you bring it into the legal framework. To ...

I am not talking about legality but rather conferring rights. People do not have the right to sexually abuse children. if someone wanted to make that ...

Suffering is undesirable but it is not undesirable because of personal preference. No one with a working nervous system could hold their hand in fire ...

I don't think people should have a right to have children or believe they have that right. I think there has to be a good reason for proposing a right...

Suicide used to be illegal but that didn't stop people committing suicide. I don't know why you think the legal right to have a child would justify ha...

Why would you need to talk about desired states when describing suffering? Suffering and injury do not need definition to exist. I am not sure what de...

Either I answered your question or I failed to understand it. I don't see how desire plays any part in whether someones is factually suffering or inju...

I don't see what gives legal rights any power. Anyone can make up a legal right. In Europe and many other places the state will take someones child of...

I don't think you can justify creating someone else. It creates a large imposition on someone else. The person can justifiably feel angry at having be...

What makes the cessation of life harmful? We are going to die anyway. What is the thing of value we want to perpetuate? Hopefully there is a better af...

You can see an injury and people can suffer. People don't desire to suffer usually but that is irrelevant to the state itself. Nevertheless in this th...

Because it causes injury and suffering.

I think being in a state of pain is harmful. It is not harmful because you desire to be in another state. I think that it is only very personal states...

You can just refrain from creating more humans.

I don't see a problem with those statements. Life is harmful to those that possess it or constitute it. Life is immoral because it transgresses any mo...

You can dispute whether life is immoral but I don't think you can dispute that it is harmful. I think it is a short step from harmful to immoral. I th...

I don't see why immorality would favor self destruction. You could argue that the continuation of life allows for the continuation of suffering and im...

You appear to be giving the individuals preference as the only reason something is wrong. But this is not like someones preference for beef over pork....

You can argue that people are slaves for various reasons. I do not believe that transatlantic slavery is the only form of slavery. I think there is an...

These kind of positions and religious positions do add another dimension of value but it dependents on whether there is any evidence for them. I find ...

But if someone evaluates genocide to be a good thing that would be patently absurd. Somethings cause so much suffering and destruction that to claim t...

"When male fig wasps, Idarnes spp., hatch inside the fig they attempt to decapitate their brothers that hatch in the same fig, attacking them with lar...

I disagree with this. Morality can mean lots of things. How does this view of morality describe events like genocide? I don't think an individuals opi...

"Contemporary slavery, also known as modern slavery or neo-slavery, refers to institutional slavery that continues to exist in present day society. Es...

I think Hope is a good thing but not false hope.

Wouldn't it be better to feed them ourselves rather than make them extinct. Scientists have successfully grown meat in a lab. I don't think you can ma...

It is not mutually exclusive that you either live in the world or assess its value. I think at the very least we should try and improve life as much a...

How do you explain humans history of of war, and slavery and genocide? How can death be a positive. All organisms die. Animals in the wild die of thin...

I think you can have a world or a life that is good or quite good but with room for improvement. Anyway isn't that ultimate goal of morality for peopl...