Should I have kids?
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Are You Grateful That You Were Not Bringing Someone Into the World?
When we are deciding whether to bring a being into existence, we have to consider the counterfactual sconario. And i think the absence of the pain that we avoid through not creating somebody is a good thing. If you've got an existing person and they're deprived of pleasures, that's bad. But if you have the deprivation of pleasure and there's nobody who's being deprived, not was, then my view is that it's not bad. So long as a life is goin to contain somepn, it's never in the interest of somebody to be brought into existence.
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