Those 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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Linda MacDonald Glenn on 02/02 at 12:22 AM
I agree, Sean -- In the same way that parents are held responsible for the actions of their children, the creators or manufacturers of new beings should be held liable and imbued with duties as moral agents. I've written before that the right to create potentially sentient beings carries with it the corresponding responsibility to an as yet indeterminate, but definite, degree for the their (the created sentient beings) actions and impact on the human community, the biosphere of the earth and the universe as a whole.
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