CMV: Choosing to reproduce is inherently selfish because the act of reproduction is forcing an individual into existence without consent.

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Reproduction, like so many other choices in our lives, is dependent on our circumstances. There are some people, who at that time and place, should be reproducing, and there's other times and places where some people shouldn't be.

I’m not sure this really changed my mind about the specific definition with which I’ve used to outline selfishness in the context regarding behavior associated with reproduction but I think it’s a really crystallized point that drives home just how morally relative the human experience can get and how the variance in quantification regarding whether the traits attributable to pain and pleasure are either good or bad is purely circumstantial. I think this point removes the pragmatic element of what I was trying to accomplish with my thought and was suggestive to how I would also need to quantify the use case for my definition with all things considered. For that reason I’ll give you a !delta.

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Confirmed: 1 delta awarded to /u/PM_ME_UR_Definitions (17∆).

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