In a modern society, we live according to a social contract that is supported by a legal-rational authority. Underlying our legal-rational authority are cultural theories about the universal and over-riding desires of those within that society. These cultural theories can be supplanted by scientifically validated truths about fundamental human nature in order to design a better society.
The Rights of Those We Create
by Sean HendersonThose of us alive today have many rights that are protected by society - yet we as a society do not largely provide the same degree of consideration to the protection/creation of procreational rights for those we create. As biological beings we have many motivational factors which prompt us to procreate in specific ways - these motivational factors conflict with the imperative to procreate ethically. We have a moral responsibility to deal with our own procreational motivations in such a way that we do not infringe upon the rights of those we create.
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