Do we have a moral obligation to reproduce?

[Anonymous]

[Sangita93]

My short one word answer is YES. Many couples enjoy sex as much as possible without producing babies for some time – say three to five years. Sex is most pleasant and enjoyable thing nature has gifted us. But why nature has made it so pleasant? Simply because nature wants to encourage men and women for it with a purpose of producing babies to keep life everlasting on earth. Many couple might wonder: is it ethical to bring a child into this broken world? This choice also raises ethical qualms: is it ‘selfish’ to refrain from procreating? It is not up to the government or society to tell me. This question falls securely within the ‘private sphere’ that, in a properly liberal society, other people must respect and leave well enough alone. We can each, individually, ask ourselves: what should I do? Is it fair to your would-be child to bring her into a life that will inevitably contain significant amounts of pain, discomfort, suffering and heartache? You expect your child’s life to contain happiness, satisfaction, joy and love. If this is correct, a new life of happiness is morally neutral, whereas a new life of misery is morally bad. Since any actual life will contain a mixture of happiness and misery. On the other hand, a happy life is surely valuable, and our ability to contribute such value to the world is surely of some moral significance. Perhaps ethical considerations count against having children while struggling financially, but it is still OK to decide to have kids in such a situation. Suppose you are in an ideal position to raise a flourishing child. You are well-educated, financially secure, have plenty of social support, and so on – just these are advantages that can improve the odds that a child will flourish. As it happens, you are ambivalent about the prospect of having children, since you have many other interests and life projects you value, which would be curtailed to some extent were you to have children. In these circumstances, if you try to imagine two possible universes and evaluate which seems better from the moral point of view, your judgment will surely be influenced by which has the greatest balance of happy, flourishing lives over miserable or even merely neutral ones. There are all sorts of factors that can reasonably influence your personal procreative choices. Central among these is how you feel about it, and how the prospect of having children fits in with your broader life hopes and plans. I strongly advocate to produce one baby minimum.

[just_a_potato]

Yes and no, I've been taught that's kind of what I'm here for and though I don't believe that, I do want kids more than anything.

[ohshee]

I don't believe it a moral obligation. To reproduce
I do believe it is a moral obligation to teach your children to become better than we are it's your choice to have a child for me I think children are beautiful I have two and it was my moral obligation to do whatever it took to teach them 2 make them better than me. I also believe it is a time to look forward and to see where we are headed is a nation as a world there are things we are not in control of and never will be. If I was starting out in a relationship if I was asked to have a child today I would really have to think about it hard. First I would have to be a l o t younger then I am now. Second of all the thing that scares me the most for anybody that has a little child since we don't know where the world is headed do you have a back-up plan in case something was ever to happen to you somebody to watch over these children and give them the same morals values and ethics that you would give them if you were not around I know life is a chance we never know what's going to happen did I return in my grave if I brought children into this world that I could not take care of them and teach them become the best if they can become but I think it is a choice and I feel if you want to take that choice then you should do it because it is one of the most beautiful things then we can do on this planet and that is to reproduce

[Kaneki05]

No, there is nothing moral about reproduction it's simply just a natural instinct that all animals have. Therefore there is no moral obligation. Just biological need within us to do so. However on the moral ethics side there is many arguments that we should stop reproducing due to all the harm it does. But like any animal, it would be hard to stop an instinct especially if not trying and also many not knowing the pain we bring as humans or they do know but simply don't care due to whatever they tell themselves.

[Bright_blue_eyes]

NO F'n way! If fact the opposite is true. We all have a moral obligation not to have kids unless 1. Both mother and father truly want to be parents and are dedicated to the relationship. 2 they have the financial ability to support and provide for the entire family. We have too many dumb-ass people having kids in the world. No way is anyone obligated to reproduce.

[Jamie05rhs]

Preach!

[Xyglo27]

It is your natural instinct to reproduce.
It is your moral obligation to reproduce.
It is your societal obligation to reproduce.
It is your choice to reproduce.
It is your duty to reproduce.


All of the above statements are right. You choose which is your own personal reason for reproducing.

Have sex, enjoy its pleasure & have babies.

[nevernevernever]

Maybe at one point, but now humanity has had a population boom and there's no real need for the individual to have a moral obligation to reproduce.

[Ditto626]

You don't have to do anything you don't want to.
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I'm on the fence about having kids. I like kids and I always wanted to have a family but I'm afraid of giving them my bad genetics and everything is getting expensive. I don't think I could afford them. I want to take them on weekend adventures and vacations and do all kinds of stuff my family couldn't afford to do while I was growing up.

[Newhead]

Only if you have superior genes.

[Ms_Vanderquack]

No, at this point we have a moral obligation to stop reproducing.

[Leavesbound]

As a society? Yes!
As an individual? No!

[Bellatris]

A "moral obligation"? Where does morality come in here? Your question doesn't make sense.

[someginger]

Nope it really doesn't matter if people stop having kids, there's always a bunch of other people to have them.

So have kids if you want or don't really doesn't matter

[Jaylaaa2000]

No.
There are billions of people in this world. Plenty of people will keep us populated.

[Agape93]

Nope

[Mac-One]

The the way the world is today and that it is unlawful to discipline children, I would not want to have any.

[exitseven]

No , children should be brought into the world in a loving home and not seen as an obligation.

[TheSpaceGnome]

like, as a species? or as individuals? I'll leave breeding up to the people who want kids, there are plenty of those, I don't see our species going extinct from celebacy anytime soon lol.

[es20490446e]

https://youtu.be/gCkPz8jMyoE

[genericname85]

no. moral is some bullshit that the human mind came up with. we are hormonally primed to want to reproduce tho.

[Nobodyherebutme]

Well I don't know about morally obligated, but somebody has to pay for your social security cheques when you're old. And if people don't have children there ain't gonna be anyone around to do that.

[ToastyOats]

If your wondering that then please yes, reproduce. It show you are not some zombie and you have a conscious. It's always the braid dead morons trying to convince beautiful souls like yourself that it's wrong for them to be the guardians of the next generation. Literally its some kind of weird brain virus!

[Jamie05rhs]

Lol no.

[Wise4myage]

No, hell no.