There?s more to see out the window of our tour bus. The ?savior sibling,? for example?an optimized child, conceived via IVF and born and raised for stem cells or bone marrow to heal a sickly older brother or sister. Overall is against it; a child, she insists, is not a means to an end: ?One would not start a relationship of any kind with a stranger by expecting?let alone demanding?the donation of blood or bone marrow.? There?s also the ?Principle of Procreative Beneficence? of Julian Savulescu; he insists that we must make the very best babies possible, using IVF and whatever other means we have at hand. And the ?Repugnant Conclusion? of Derek Parfit, which holds that if you have a few million happy people over here, and a few billion mostly miserable people over there, well, then the cumulative happiness of the miserable billions is greater than the cumulative happiness of the happy millions. And given that those billions prefer to keep on living their crap-sack lives, well?there you have it, a crowded, cranky world has more happiness than one where people have lots of room and wear natural fibers and drive hover cars. By not having babies and lots of them, ASAP, you are lowering the overall happiness of the world, bringing down the potential. Get on it.
Source: http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=83c71d2e2e99fefbd5a66a9a7a7271d9
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