Now you're playing God. You're saying whose life is worth something, and whose is not, and that you already know how a life is going to work out.attofishpi wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 7:34 am The world would be awash with delinquents (more so than now) if every foetus was permitted to be born via people with neither the means or what is important to raise a healthy well adjusted child.
Of course, you have know such knowledge. A child born into poverty and deprivation may grow up to be a great civil rights leader or to discover a cure for cancer, for all you know. There are, indeed, many stories of people transcending their births in marvelous ways. But they'll do no such thing if you murder them before they begin. And you don't know that the son or daughter of privilege won't grow up to be a school shooter or a genocidal dictator, do you?
That's what makes your argument silly and irrelevant -- it requires you to pretend to be God.
But there's a second reason, and it's that you are in no position to say what anybody's life is worth, regardless of whom they turn out to be. You're not the locus of value.
And I'll throw in a third: by behaving responsibily yourself, you can avoid both having to play God and having to kill somebody. You can make your choice to use your reproductive powers responsibly, and not create people you are murdering later.
So no, it's not a good argument, from any point of view.