I didn’t fully understand your opinion, but I noticed you’re not against the principle of stopping births. My concern is that this line of thinking can open the gates to very dangerous ideas.
If you accept that saving people isn’t always good, or that preventing certain births can be morally justified, then it becomes possible to argue that we should stop genetically defected people from having children—also for the “greater good.” Just like one might argue we should prevent births to avoid suffering, one could now argue that we should prevent certain types of people from being born in order to “improve humanity.”
This is a very slippery slope. It might start with the idea of doing good, but it risks justifying things like eugenics. Once you accept that some lives shouldn’t be saved or born, you risk treating some people as worth less than others.
I didn’t fully understand your opinion, but I noticed you’re not against the principle of stopping births. My concern is that this line of thinking can open the gates to very dangerous ideas.
If you accept that saving people isn’t always good, or that preventing certain births can be morally justified, then it becomes possible to argue that we should stop genetically defected people from having children—also for the “greater good.” Just like one might argue we should prevent births to avoid suffering, one could now argue that we should prevent certain types of people from being born in order to “improve humanity.”
This is a very slippery slope. It might start with the idea of doing good, but it risks justifying things like eugenics. Once you accept that some lives shouldn’t be saved or born, you risk treating some people as worth less than others.