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Edited by HurtfulTurkey:
7/3/2013 6:42:38 PM
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Is this murder?
You and your wife/girlfriend want to have a baby. Unfortunately, NASA has determined that in 10 months, an asteroid will hit the Earth and everyone will die. There's no way to deflect, destroy, or otherwise counteract the asteroid. Everyone's gonna die in 10 months. Would you consider it murder to conceive and give birth to a child, knowing that soon after it's born it would be killed, along with everyone else?
[spoiler]I'm not talking about murder in the legal sense. This is more of a question of whether this would be right or wrong. This isn't a circuitous abortion debate. This is just a thought experiment.[/spoiler]
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There's not much I know for sure about my future, but I do know that one day, I will die. This is true for all humans, and everyone knows this (at least everyone old enough to be parents). With this in mind, your suggestion makes every human in history murders. In a broad sense, I think you could define murder as depriving someone of their future. By this definition, your actions are [i]giving[/i] a child a future, although a short one. In this case, the end of the child's life is ended by the asteroid, a natural disaster far outside of the parents control, just like death by old age is outside their control. With this in mind, my conclusion would be [b]no[/b].
