• silasmariner@programming.dev
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    20 hours ago

    I think it’s perfectly deniable that it’s selfish if you believe your children would have more valuable existences if they existed than if they didn’t, and there’s some value in their lives. You do things because you decided to do them, not necessarily because they benefit you – unless you believe you can trivially reduce all motivation to selfishness (which then reduces to the concept of selfishness to something so trite as to be meaningless)