Re: tyranny: what do you mean by "bad"? Whose definition are you using? No, I don't believe there is any objective truth wrt individuals' value judgments. There are only norms and agreements between individuals.
Yes, I think creating people is an essentially coercive act. Mostly because of the above: it makes the "consent" question basically irrational and thus difficult to reason about. Did a child consent to being born? What would either answer even _mean_? It's like an undefined zone of ethics, so I don't comment on it. Any comment would be baseless.
That doesn't mean I don't think that continuing the population and improving quality of life, expanding across the whole galaxy, etc. are bad. I prefer those outcomes. But I can still be "no opinion" on the means to those ends.
vinney
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2025-03-01 15:28:28
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