Informal argument:
1) I cannot prove that our world is not fundamentally bad.
(A fundamentally bad world is one that generates fundamentally bad lives. A fundamentally bad life is a life in which the person living it would rather die than continue living but is forced to continue living forever.)
(A maximally fundamentally bad world is one that generates many lives where 100% are fundamentally bad. A minimally fundamentally bad world is one that generates exactly one fundamentally bad life, or generates many lives where some minimal percentage above 0% are fundamentally bad.)
2) So, for all I know, our world is at least minimally fundamentally bad.
3) So, for all I know, some or all of us are living fundamentally bad lives in which we will survive death and go on to live forever while wishing for death.
4) So, for all I know, any number of my children (if I were to have them) will go on to live fundamentally bad lives.
5) The most evil thing you can do to a person is cause them to live a fundamentally bad life.
6) So having children is risking the most evil thing you can do to someone.
7) Knowingly taking an evil risk is itself evil.
8) So having children knowing it is risking the most evil thing you can do to someone is itself one of the most evil things you can do.
1) I cannot prove that our world is not fundamentally bad.
ReplyDelete2) So, for all I know, our world is at least minimally fundamentally bad.
3) So, for all I know, some or all of us are living fundamentally bad lives in which we will survive death and go on to live forever while wishing for death.
4) So, for all I know, any number of my children (if I were to have them) will go on to live fundamentally bad lives.
5) The most evil thing one can do to a person is cause them to live a fundamentally bad life.
6) So having children is risking the most evil thing one can do to someone.
7) Taking an evil risk knowing you don't have to is evil.
8) So having children knowing I don't have to and knowing it would be risking the most evil thing one can do to someone is one of the most evil things I could do.