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Do we have a moral/societal/ethical duty to have children?

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I think it more moral and ethical to not have children, given the dire over population of humans and all the children who are already born that need a home.
 

Poeticus

| abhyAvartin |
Do we as humans have any sort of duty to procreate?

***I shall not engage in useless
semantics and ask what you
mean by your use of the term,
"duty", even though someone
else will surely undergo that
route.
In times of overpopulation, no.

In times of underpopulation, yes.​
 

Nymphs

Well-Known Member
I shall not engage in useless
semantics and ask what you
mean by your use of the term,
"duty", even though someone
else will surely undergo that
route.

It is whatever duty means to you. The idea and word, like so many others, is up for interpretation as this is a discussion debate.
 

Saint Frankenstein

Here for the ride
Premium Member
***I shall not engage in useless
semantics and ask what you
mean by your use of the term,
"duty", even though someone
else will surely undergo that
route.
In times of overpopulation, no.

In times of underpopulation, yes.​

Totally agreed. At this point, I believe it's more ethical to adopt.
 

Valjean

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Quite the opposite, considering the miserable condition of much of the human population and the devastation our numbers are wreaking on Nature.
 

CynthiaCypher

Well-Known Member
Children are the wealth of England! It is our moral duty to insure the welfare of England and the Crown. We do our duty and have children to strengthen England and to show her to be the wealthiest of the nations of man. So dear ladies, I beseech you when your husband comes to your bedstead, do not shirk your wifely duties! But bear his animal urges patiently in honor of England. Dear woman I ask you to come to your senses and do your patriotic duty for the Crown. Close your eyes and think of England!
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Children are the wealth of England! It is our moral duty to insure the welfare of England and the Crown. We do our duty and have children to strengthen England and to show her to be the wealthiest of the nations of man. So dear ladies, I beseech you when your husband comes to your bedstead, do not shirk your wifely duties! But bear his animal urges patiently in honor of England. Dear woman I ask you to come to your senses and do your patriotic duty for the Crown. Close your eyes and think of England!
I don't think there is any imminent threat or danger of devastating drop in population that would weaken any of the Western governments. And what of all the children who are already born that need a home? They too are the future, and without a loving and supportive home, their future, as well as ours, is not so bright.
 

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
Do we as humans have any sort of duty to procreate?

Discuss. :D

Nope.

It could conceivably happen under very specific circunstances, but it is all but unknown for those circunstances to happen.

Nor is it even a simple matter of numbers, either. Far too many people have children and fail at raising them.

That, not to make too fine a point of it, is in essence betraying humanity for all generations to come.
 
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Valjean

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Not necessarily. Some of us need to have babies so humanity can live on, but it doesn't mean everyone needs to, can, or should.
So the necessity of continuing our species is axiomatic?
 
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CynthiaCypher

Well-Known Member
I don't think there is any imminent threat or danger of devastating drop in population that would weaken any of the Western governments. And what of all the children who are already born that need a home? They too are the future, and without a loving and supportive home, their future, as well as ours, is not so bright.

It was a joke.
 

Sha'irullah

رسول الآلهة
Given that we are running out of resources and the population is over bloated we have a duty to noy only stop having children but to at least kill off a certain amount of the population as of now. Not much but at least 1 billion should die :yes:.

World Population Today: 7.1 billion (7,100,000,000)

Projected World Population:
2010: 6,916,000,000
2015: 7,324,000,000
2020: 7,717,000,000
2025: 8,083,000,000
2030: 8,425,000,000
2035: 8,743,000,000
2040: 9,039,000,000
2045: 9,308,000,000
2050: 9,551,000,000

Top 6 Largest Population:
1. China: 1,364,640,000
2. India: 1,244,520,000
3. United States: 318,098,000
4. Indonesia: 247,008,052
5. Brazil: 201,032,714
6. Pakistan: 186,545,000


Recommendations:

Systematically kill of the top to largest population(China and India) and only save the scientist and useful people while ensuring Indian telemarketers are expunged.

2. Make all societies infertile except for Japan since they are doing well on their own.

3. Perform mass castration on the inhabitants of the Top 30 Most "Busiest Countries":
1 Niger
2 Mali
3 Afghanistan
4 Burkina Faso
5 Malawi
6 Uganda
7 Zambia
8 Chad
9 DR Congo
10 Somalia
11 Rwanda
12 Mozambique
13 Angola
14 Tanzania
15 Guinea-Bissau
16 East Timor
17 Sierra Leone
18 Equatorial Guinea
19 Benin
20 Guinea
21 Nigeria
22 South Sudan
23 Senegal
24 Liberia
25 Kenya
26 Yemen
27 Ethiopia
28 Gambia
29 Solomon Islands
30 Cameroon





Over population is a scary thing to be serious here. But as human beings we no longer possess the duty to procreate but instead the deprocreate. Of course I am not endorsing genocide here and am only saying this in humor but we have exceeded our limits decades ago and should seriously do more productive things besides turning the women of the earth into baby machines.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Do we as humans have any sort of duty to procreate?

Discuss. :D

No. I think it's our nature to procreate.

I don't view it as being a duty in light it's not something everyone would be privy for by having children out of a sense of duty.

That would diminish important aspects as to why people want children, and how they will be viewed and treated during their rearing. I suspect a sense of duty diminishes love and emotional support that can effect the outlook of the child when they themselves grow up.
 
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