Analysis Of The Immortality Of Giving Birth To Children

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Immorality of Giving Birth to Children

Introduction
The purpose of this essay is to assess the essay The Immortality of Having Children written by Stuart Rachels. In this essay, he expresses the idea of “Famine Relief Argument against Bearing Children”. To have children and bring them up spends a huge amount of money, which can used to solve the famine. Based on that reason, the author thinks that to bring up children is not moral. First of all, this essay will discuss the argument given by Stuart Rachels. Then, it will assess such viewpoint objectively.
This essay does not agree with the viewpoint with that of Stuart Rachels and supports its position with some theory.

Argument Given by Stuart Rachels in Opposing Children Bearing
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The moral life means that one has to overcome the sufferings, whose causes may be poverty, illness or something else (Rachels, 2013). In terms of rub, if one desires to live a generous life, the most significant decision he will make is whether he bears child because it occupies lots of time and finance of parents in nearly twenty years. Thus, Rachels argues that people should not have children. If one has children, he will be so generous with money at all and cannot ensure an ethical life style.

Finally, Stuart Rachels discusses the objections that do not agree with his opinion. Some think that it is a disastrous result that people do not have children because the whole world may become aging and human beings may not exist anymore and others mention that to bear children is a natural thing for human beings (Rachels, 2013). Aimed at different objections, Rachels has given the explanation. For example, he claims that his opinion is just to say that people should not have children, but do not forbid people to have children. In other words, to have children depends on the economic situation of …show more content…

On another hand, if one individual is very clever, to have children is beneficial to create next smart generations due to the effect of genes (Bernstein, 2011). Thus, to have a kid does not affect donation made to charity. To have kids is a particular case of investing one’s time and money, which may make individuals happy. Just as what is advocated by objectivism of morality, to live for self means that to realize his own happiness is the supreme target of one individual. That is, the good of human beings does not need to make sacrifice for others. The behavior of having children is just like working for $56000 job one individual likes rather than working at a job you dislike that can earn $72000. If having kids can make individuals most happy, it appears

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