Preferring Biological Children Is Immoral(wired.com)
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Preferring Biological Children Is Immoral
https://www.wired.com/story/ethics-children-parenting-family-biology/
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> What's the end game for this kind of stuff
A world of tortured social compliance. I am onboard with doing all sorts of socially unacceptable things. My solution is a torrent of lies.
A world of tortured social compliance. I am onboard with doing all sorts of socially unacceptable things. My solution is a torrent of lies.
This is a prime example of why people dislike philosophers.
It's like they take a perverse pleasure from pissing in peoples' cornflakes.
It's like they take a perverse pleasure from pissing in peoples' cornflakes.
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Physically you can make people do anything, but what they want internally is a completely different matter and there is no way today to probe that.
Let's assume there is a large section of people who can only love their direct off springs, the author could perhaps claim that that would be immoral - is this gaslighting or what. What's the end game for this kind of stuff - it's to eliminate all preferences - quite akin to slavery.