| >bringing a human being into a dying world is a deeply immoral thing to do What does this actually mean? What is a dying world, exactly? Historically, the world has been an awful place to be. Most of Human history, 200k years or so, we were essentially nomadic tribes killing and eating each other(sometimes literally*). Since civilization has begun, we've been ostensibly more moral-- yet the majority of humans who have existed in the past 10,000 years were laborers we know very little about. When you read about what people in Greece and Rome were like? That's mostly the well off nobles. Rarely did anyone bother to write about the lives of slaves, and subsequently we know next to nothing about them except that many of them had very harsh lives. We don't know what day to day life was like for the majority of Roman, for example. Countless kingdoms have fallen-- Cesar had a book he published about some of his expeditions in genocide(or read another way, in conquering the enemy). When a city was sacked by the enemy; all resistance was killed, women were used, and then those remaining men women, and children were sold into slavery to fund the winning kingdom. Their stuff was sold too, as you won't be surprised to hear. If they really hated the other side, like when Rome felled Carthage, they would salt the earth after. While expensive, it guaranteed nothing would grow there for a long time after-- a testament to the power of the conquers to eliminate any opposition. My point being.. I don't know why it's more unethical to birth humans into this world, than any of our ancestors. Logically, every human experiences unhappiness. How is it ever moral to birth humans into a world when humans experience pain? Human existence itself isn't purely logical and cannot be understood like that * https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/06/prehistoric-... |