https://twitter.com/Israel/status/1724392576516600204?t=TsorPD25mUNp25Rk0iakYg&s=19

  • Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    (ignore everything here if this was a joke, which I took it as, but just to be sure)

    Of course there isn't.

    But purposely bringing a child into the world without proper parental support (not an accidental pregnancy - purposeful impregnation. Also not opting out of an abortion. I am solely speaking about artificial insemination here) would be immoral as it sets the child up for... Everything bad, basically, according to the tomes of stats we have. The main issue being only one parental income.

    But that also isn't the scenario I laid out. Specifically, it would be weird as hell to purposely impregnate yourself (in my opinion) with a dead person's, spouse or otherwise, sperm. There's so many issues there, but the easiest one for me, and why I pointed at it, is the decision to purposely bring a person into the world who was known, before the zygote even formed, to always have this ghost of a biological father hovering over their lives. The presumed adopting father (or mother, etc.) could absolutely fill the needs for love and material needs, but, there's still a major moral issue there. Again, imo.

    Best way I can explain it is something like "we don't condemn people for suboptimal situations being forced upon them (the single mother or the child of a single mother), but we (individuals with agency) shouldn't create suboptimal situations for others (the hypothetical child in this case)."

    It's mostly the fact that another life (the child) is directly affected here and it would be done on purpose. This is different (just to cut off arguments) than abortion where the fetus is not a "life" until birth, so the only person affected by abortion is the pregnant person who makes the decision themselves.

    I have now officially and totally thought about this too much.