I don’t disagree with you on any particular point there. However, the quote I was responding to wasn’t, as I see it, attempting to explore the cost/benefit of raising minimum wage or subsidising the future of children. It was stating that they just shouldn’t have kids—and in that much represented an effective blank cheque. That seems the opposite of your, much more nuanced, approach; bound by implications of fact and reason that are going to be specific to particular issues and cases and thus can’t be generalised in the same way.
I don’t disagree with you on any particular point there. However, the quote I was responding to wasn’t, as I see it, attempting to explore the cost/benefit of raising minimum wage or subsidising the future of children. It was stating that they just shouldn’t have kids—and in that much represented an effective blank cheque. That seems the opposite of your, much more nuanced, approach; bound by implications of fact and reason that are going to be specific to particular issues and cases and thus can’t be generalised in the same way.
Well, I’m not particularly in agreement with the original quote either, I just don’t endorse treating it as a Boo Light, against which any sort of argument is praiseworthy.