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TheOtherDave 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: TheOtherDave 24 October 2013 03:14:50AM 2 points [-]

On the other hand, Kant's imperative does not obviously oppose the maxim "stop having kids so you can donate more to charity for as long as the marginal value of another child is lower than the marginal value of your differential charitable contributions." (Nor does it obviously oppose a large number of other competing maxims.)