3/15/2023 0 Comments Who should have children?Children are great. Human lives are great. A child has limitless potential and helping one grow and learn well creates a lot of good and creativity in the world. You could say that parenting is metacreative.
But there are other actions that create good in the world too. I think there will be lots of people having children whatever any individual decides. It’s not like good people having children and caring for them well will reduce the amount of children raised by bad people. I’m also not convinced by Idiocracy-style theories that society will get dumber because smart people generally have less kids; kids with dumb parents can still learn good ideas and be very smart. So I don't think it's urgent that all good people have children. There are lots of bad ideas people can have. I think most people have some pretty bad ideas in one way or another, but more often than not it's a result of ignorance rather than malice. There are some especially bad ideas though which would make someone a terrible parent which I want to make explicit. These aren't the only bad ideas, but these are somewhat common ones that I think are worth noting. So I think it's important that any prospective parent:
That still leaves a lot of other people who could have children. I don't think they should all be parents. I think people who can meet these criteria should have children:
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