Your attitude is constantly being bread out of the species, on the margin. People who want children, and to a lesser extent people who want to make children, define the future of the species. Anybody who wants to can opt out without either fear of the species disappearing, but also without the ability to cause the species to disappear by opting out .
In my opinion, there are no principles that are not tied to outcomes. There is no point having a principle against doing X if it will never be the case that the people doing X are going to get a bad result.
Should there be a principle against homosexual sex because we don’t want to run out of humans? I’d venture to say more bad than good arises from principled thinking like that. More utility is lost than is gained when principle is not tied to outcomes.
Your attitude is constantly being bread out of the species, on the margin. People who want children, and to a lesser extent people who want to make children, define the future of the species. Anybody who wants to can opt out without either fear of the species disappearing, but also without the ability to cause the species to disappear by opting out .
I was thinking more about principles (ie, what would I want people to do) rather than what is actually likely to happen.
In my opinion, there are no principles that are not tied to outcomes. There is no point having a principle against doing X if it will never be the case that the people doing X are going to get a bad result.
Should there be a principle against homosexual sex because we don’t want to run out of humans? I’d venture to say more bad than good arises from principled thinking like that. More utility is lost than is gained when principle is not tied to outcomes.