And you would also be depriving that hypothetical child of every moment of joy or glimpse at beauty they will ever experience you are unreasonably focusing on only a subsection of the human experience in order to condemn the whole.
If this is true why do most leftists support family planning and birth control? If the “wonders of life” are so damn great why isn’t there a moral imperative to pump out as many kids as possible? Isn’t every time someone doesn’t get pregnant when they could them depriving a life of the amazing experience of being?
It's not what I believe as I do not believe that the non-existent have the right to consent however supposing for the sake of argument they do then it is no more respectful of their consent to decide for them that they have no right to exist than it is to decide they must exist. Just as suffering is not more true or important than joy.
The reason many leftists support birth control and family planning has to do with the rights of women rather than the rights of thought experiments.
If this is true why do most leftists support family planning and birth control? If the “wonders of life” are so damn great why isn’t there a moral imperative to pump out as many kids as possible? Isn’t every time someone doesn’t get pregnant when they could them depriving a life of the amazing experience of being?
It's not what I believe as I do not believe that the non-existent have the right to consent however supposing for the sake of argument they do then it is no more respectful of their consent to decide for them that they have no right to exist than it is to decide they must exist. Just as suffering is not more true or important than joy.
The reason many leftists support birth control and family planning has to do with the rights of women rather than the rights of thought experiments.