RE: Ethics
March 2, 2022 at 3:04 pm
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2022 at 3:08 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I somehow doubt we're giving this idea solid representation. I think we can wonder whether a moral agent would choose life if it had a full understanding of the consequences of that life vis a vis suffering. It's a weird setup right off the bat, imo, because we don't have a frame of reference for that. We don't remember all of our suffering, and can't reliably predict all of our future suffering - and even if we could, it doesn't seem to be the case that we could apprehend that entire body of facts in a comprehensive way.
All we can note, as Boru already noted, is that on balance it's been good and we rather enjoy being alive. Attached to the idea, you might say. A little bit.
It may be that an equivalent moral agent to any of us, supplied with the full information required to objectively process the relationships between those facts, would decline. One wonders how the world got so full of people, though...were that the case most often. In sum, whether the issue settles on one side or another (and either could be the case) we aren't supplied with sufficient information to uniformly declare an ethical judgement on people who want or decide to have children. We cant objectively declare that having children is unethical, only that it may be. No surprises there.
All we can note, as Boru already noted, is that on balance it's been good and we rather enjoy being alive. Attached to the idea, you might say. A little bit.
It may be that an equivalent moral agent to any of us, supplied with the full information required to objectively process the relationships between those facts, would decline. One wonders how the world got so full of people, though...were that the case most often. In sum, whether the issue settles on one side or another (and either could be the case) we aren't supplied with sufficient information to uniformly declare an ethical judgement on people who want or decide to have children. We cant objectively declare that having children is unethical, only that it may be. No surprises there.
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