Rivka Weinberg

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New Books in Philosophy · Rivka Weinberg, “The Risk of a Lifetime: How, When, and Why Procreation May be Permissible” (Oxford UP, 2016) · 3 Feb 2016 podcast

And he thinks that those kinds of cases are very rare.

Um but yes.

if you if you look at the theory of the non identity problem will be that most of the time if somebody will have a life worth living

it you know, any time that somebody's life is worth living, you have this blanket excuse to create them under any kind of condition so long as you satisfy that really, really low level standard of care.

So if we do away with the non identity problem, which I think we can easily do, then um

we we remove that that permissibility and now we have to really take our s you know take our procreative acts

Benatar says it's always wrong.

And Schiffrin says it's always morally problematic.

So she points to a problematic feature but she doesn't make an overall definite assessment because she's not taking into account other excuses you might have to do what would otherwise be wrong.

Yes, I know.

It's so sad for me to hold the boring sensible middle

It's not boring.

So, you know, and it my intuitions are definitely on the antinatalist side that life is terrible and we shouldn't have any children.

But I I I think that's temperamental.

I don't see that the arguments hold up.

So if we start with um

Benatar's argument.

So Benatar actually has two arguments.

He has the sort of best explanation reason for why it's you know it's

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