RE: Abortion and Global warming
May 20, 2014 at 2:41 pm
(This post was last modified: May 20, 2014 at 2:44 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(May 20, 2014 at 2:36 pm)Heywood Wrote: It doesn't matter that enough will likely exist in the future. If every individual has a right not to reproduce and instead utilize all the resources they can obtain on themselves instead of children then all of humanity has the right to do the same.
Policy deals with reality. One does not make policy based on impossible hypothetical case where everyone in the world makes exactly the same choices. One makes policy based on the outcome from the probable range distribution of choices that the people of the world would actually make.
(May 20, 2014 at 2:36 pm)Heywood Wrote: Why is it that if you decide to have children in the future I have to exercise care of the world to preserve their well being?
Because quid pro quo.
If you don't, then others will ensure your current well being would be less than you desire.
Did it serve some perverse psychological need for you to come across as being so obtuse that these things need to be explained to you?
