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yurble
It's been an utter mystery to me for a long time why people continue to breed with the known effects of climate change on the horizon.
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I, like many philosophers, believe that it’s morally better to make people happy than to make happy people. Those who exist already have needs and wants, and protecting and providing for them is motivated by respect for human life. It is not a harm to someone not to be created.
In fact, I would argue that it is more “anti-life” to prioritize creating new life over caring for, or even not harming, those who already exist.
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yurble
Here's an article about having fewer children due to climate change.Quote
I, like many philosophers, believe that it’s morally better to make people happy than to make happy people. Those who exist already have needs and wants, and protecting and providing for them is motivated by respect for human life. It is not a harm to someone not to be created.
In fact, I would argue that it is more “anti-life” to prioritize creating new life over caring for, or even not harming, those who already exist.
Of course the author has a child. Of course.
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He calls himself a philosopher? He needs to learn critical thinking skills. He just said making existing people happy is more important than creating new ones, yet he had a kid.
I think he is correct, but a hypocrite.
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I found this summer to be REALLY hot and humid in upstate NY and it is still going on. People who have lived all of their lives here have said it is the worst they have seen.
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I was watching the American news about the whole Trump fiasco about a couple of months ago, and they showed a video clip of a senator holding a snowball in the House, arguing that there's no such thing as global warming, because hey, snowball. He was an avid trump supporter.
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