You are right, but I don’t think that’s relevant to the argument.
The argument isn’t that having kids makes people on net worse than before. The argument is that it makes people worse than another action would. (And even then, it’s not always suboptimal; the more costly it is to raise a child—and in the first world it is very costly—the less moral it is to raise one.)
You are right, but I don’t think that’s relevant to the argument.
The argument isn’t that having kids makes people on net worse than before. The argument is that it makes people worse than another action would. (And even then, it’s not always suboptimal; the more costly it is to raise a child—and in the first world it is very costly—the less moral it is to raise one.)