gjm comments on The Bedrock of Fairness - Less Wrong
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Doesn't it strike you that that's not very fair to the child?
For that matter, it's not remotely fair to the parents either; productivity is not solely determined by parents' genes plus upbringing, still less by what the parents can know about their genes plus upbringing. Consider, for instance, the following scenarios. In all of them, by "net positive contribution" I mean "net positive economic contribution", which I'm pretty sure is what you have in mind by that phrase.
Would you say that these children deserve to die because of their parents' misdeeds in having them? This seems to me an absolutely untenable position; it requires you to hold
all of which seem absurd.
A world run the way you seem to prefer would not be one I would want to live in.