Posted: Mar 18, 2012 10:56 pm
Spinozasgalt wrote:
You believe that living leads to nontrivial harm, don't you? Shouldn't you be advocating painless suicides then? Let's get clearer on that.
Before someone has a child due to the wonder of the human mind we can contemplate on the outcome of our actions.
This decision not to have children is being made before the existence of a new sentience life come to exist suicide is taking place after the existence of sentience and is down to the individual. Many people do chose it around 1 million people world wide every year.
If you created a robot would you create a robot that had inbuilt faults, the capacity to suffer immensely and a limited shelf life?
However although everyone does suffer non trivial harm in life most notably through facing death and bereavement alot of people suffer unmitigated horrendous harm.
If there was a scenario where there was no going to be no child poverty war slavery and genocide then the questions could be approached solely from the perspective of western privellege and expectations.