My antinatalism is the philosophical kind (like Benatar and Ligotti's), not the ecological kind Which is in some sense more narrowly focused - the great harm human beings do is not to other animals or "the planet" but to themselves
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But...people don't generally do that, so it doesn't seem like a big worry to me.
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Regardless, I'd say that whether existing is better than not existing does not figure into people's baby-making decisions. People prioritize what's best for them, not for hypothetical future babies. But this is another part of why philosophy and I have never gelled.
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People can have spurious reasons for producing babies, just as they can have spurious reasons for refusing to produce babies. I only mean that it is no way redounds to the babies, who, in a basic Maslow-meeting-needs situation, would rather be alive than not.
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Is being alive on Maslow's hierarchy?
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