Is it ethical to have children?

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Question: Is it ethical to have children?
Position‹2 of 4›: No, it is not ethical to have children

First, by making a new person, we inflict that person onto the world. The world is already full and lacks resources. Adding to the population only worsens the current environmental catastrophe. Secondly, we also inflict the world onto the person we create. It is ethically wrong to have children since they will have to live through the world's problems.

Supporting arguments · 2

Having children threatens the environment
Our planet is currently experiencing an environmental catastrophe with the drastic effects of climate change. These effects are driven by population growth to some extent. Therefore, having children would only damage the environment and the living people’s welfare even more.
It is unethical to knowingly inflict the troubled world onto the children
In a world where resources are becoming increasingly scarce and sociopolitical stability is nonexistent, one should ask about the ethics of bearing children. When people have a child, they put someone that they will predictably love in a world that is in serious trouble.