Is It an Analytical Decision to Have Children?

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Larry says he's troubled by that the vampire wins kind of silly we have trouble thinking about it but when I talk about this decision to have children and listeners though. "You're a different person after you've had kids anybody who's had kids knows that" He also suggests there could be someone who said oh yeah I'm glad I was like I was injured in this way it taught me something about life.

Philosopher and author L.A. Paul talks about her book Transformative Experience with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Paul explores the uncertainties that surround the transformative experiences that we choose and that happen to us without choosing. How should we think about the morality and personal impact of these kinds of experiences, especially when some decisions are very hard or impossible to reverse? Examples include becoming a vampire, having children, religion, and other life experiences and choices.