alt Hacker NewsThere is also the reverse - is it ethical not to have children? Maybe the hypothetical children want to exist.
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Supermancho • today at 2:34 AM
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There is also the reverse - is it ethical not to have children? Maybe the hypothetical children want to exist.
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That reminds me of James Morrow's This Is The Way The World Ends.
After a nuclear apocalypse wipes out most of humanity, the ghosts of now-will-never-be-born future people hold the survivors to trial because they're ticked off at losing their opportunity to live.