On Wed, August 7, 2019 2:42 pm, Atheist Society wrote:
> 15 attended Christian Brimo's discussion of 'Antinatalism".
> He felt that, as everyone eventually wilts and dies, it was immoral of us
> to bring infants into this world to suffer the same fate.
Given that is impossible (ontologically and epsitemologically!) to ask or
know whether a child wants to be born prior to their sapience, such a
statement is unanswerable. Some people might have enjoyed living, and
embrace "wilting" and dying as part of that process.
From a sociological perspective I suspect that one would see a massive
correlation between optimism and pessimism and the voluntary birthrate. We
don't call the post-WWII generation "[baby] boomers" for nothing.
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