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Effective Altruism with Kelsey Piper

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Is It Morally Obligatory for People to Have Children?

No I think that if you want to cause someone to be alive who would otherwise die you can in fact buy malaria nets and you know spend a couple thousand dollars on that. If we're not even at the point of you have a moral obligation to give your five thousand dollars and save a person from dying then it would be like pretty crazy to leap over that, he says. There's very little chance that we would end up in a situation where the best way for people to create a good human future is to have kids they don't want or something like that.

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