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Old 09-25-2019, 05:12 PM   #841 (permalink)
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It really depends.

If the parents are being overtly reckless and ignoring something like some genetic defect they have or some other reason not to have a kid, maybe. But if they were just otherwise normal people who for whatever reason got an unlucky roll of the dice it doesn't seem very reasonable to hold that against them.
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Old 09-25-2019, 05:24 PM   #842 (permalink)
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"Overtly reckless" could conceivably apply to anyone having children.
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Old 09-25-2019, 05:34 PM   #843 (permalink)
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Yeh but that's not how I meant it. I mean to me it's overly reckless to knowingly have kids you can't support or like I said if there's an abnormally high likelihood of some illness/defect that will severely **** the kid's life up.

If nobody had kids there would be no people. I think it's worth it to risk some pain just to keep the whole phenomenon of consciousness going. Like i said, to someone who values the cessation of suffering above everything else, the moon is a utopia. To me it's a big boring worthless rock. I value life.
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Old 09-25-2019, 05:38 PM   #844 (permalink)
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Very innovative of you.
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Old 09-25-2019, 05:40 PM   #845 (permalink)
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In this case I'd rather be conventional.
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Old 09-25-2019, 05:43 PM   #846 (permalink)
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You mean in all cases (bestiality aside of course)?
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Old 09-25-2019, 05:44 PM   #847 (permalink)
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Nah. I also think robots should replace humans.
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Old 09-25-2019, 05:45 PM   #848 (permalink)
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At work at least.
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Old 09-25-2019, 05:47 PM   #849 (permalink)
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No. In general. If they are smarter than us than if we go extinct nothing is lost

But if we drive ourselves extinct for some other dumb reason the smartest being on earth just got nixed
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As far as I'm concerned if there's a point to all this it should be to achieve immortality and then stop having children.
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