(April 2, 2015 at 2:51 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:(April 2, 2015 at 2:40 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Calling reproduction immoral because people are sometimes unhappy is like deeming flight to be unsafe transport because sometimes planes crash.
That's not a good comparison, because people are very frequently unhappy and in pain, but planes rarely crash, considering how many flights there are.
If we look at the world today, there are plenty of people who have quite a lot of troubles that are obvious enough, and then there are those living "lives of quiet desperation." There are a lot of people with existential angst whose troubles are often not seen.
Also, there is nothing at all wrong with having never been conceived. There is no downside to that.
Yes but the frequency is offset by the different significance of bad results. Plane crashes are rarely survivable. Unhappiness most often is survivable.
The idea that a negligible negative outcome should result in moral angst is silly, to me. Life's tough ... get a helmet. It's worth every minute.
