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Is it Ok to have kids: do people have a moral duty to have children if they can?

16 mins | May 28, 2017
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Richard Chappell writing in Aeon Magazine, ponders on a question people have asked themselves for centuries – do they have a moral duty to have children if they can? And while it may be a personal matter, the decision whether to procreate is serious. That makes it philosophy’s business, he argues.

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