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Nisan 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: Nisan 22 October 2013 07:41:40PM *  3 points [-]

That's not what the OP meant. Rather, "if the decision to have children is justified, then it is justified by considering how happy it makes you, not by how happy your children will be."

Comment author: Lumifer 22 October 2013 07:53:10PM 4 points [-]

Why is that?