Ep. 169: The Case against Children.

The Mindcrime LIberty Show discusses the case against children. If life has some amount of suffering, and suffering is a negative, then why create new life? On a theological level unless one is a universalist there is no guarantee of a happy outcome for children. What are the best arguments against having children? Do children make their parents lives better or worse? Would the people who currently don’t have children really be better off if they had children? Or is this a kind of selection effect whereby those who would be happy having children already have them?