Yeah, I hadn’t thought about that—though IIRC educated men also have fewer children in average.
(And personally I lean more to average utilitarianism than total utilitarianism at the moment.)
Men don’t get hit as hard, IIRC. And it’s not like men have ever been bottlenecks to reproduction—an educated woman can just go use a sperm bank (significantly better than an old husband in terms of birth defects), engage one-night stands, marry downwards, etc.
Er… How so? I can’t see any reason why I’d rather my mother was less educated than she actually is.
It should only take a second or two to think of possible reasons.
Here’s one: Education causes birth rates to plunge. So if existence is a good, then the more you educate women, the more you harm children.
Yeah, I hadn’t thought about that—though IIRC educated men also have fewer children in average. (And personally I lean more to average utilitarianism than total utilitarianism at the moment.)
Men don’t get hit as hard, IIRC. And it’s not like men have ever been bottlenecks to reproduction—an educated woman can just go use a sperm bank (significantly better than an old husband in terms of birth defects), engage one-night stands, marry downwards, etc.