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Omid comments on Is it immoral to have children? - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: jkaufman 22 October 2013 12:13PM

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Comment author: Omid 22 October 2013 03:36:29PM 5 points [-]

Making a child gives them ~70 QALY's. That's not a lot by efficient charity standards, but it's a lot by "helping the people closest to you" standards. If sibling needed $100K to purchase 14 QALY's, would you help them?

Comment author: jkaufman 22 October 2013 07:21:18PM 2 points [-]

Depending on how your "helping the people closest to you" works, should it include people who don't exist yet?