Mitchell_Porter comments on Rationality Quotes August 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 20 August 2012 05:05:33AM 4 points [-]

I don't particularly want to discourage other people from having children

I feel that I should. It's a politically inconvenient stance to take, since all human cultures are based on reproducing themselves; antinatal cultures literally die out.

But from a human perspective, this world is deeply flawed. To create a life is to gamble with the outcome of that life. And it seems to be a gratuitous gamble.