Is It Right To Have Children?

Everyone has the right to bear a child.

 

 
It's a natural right.

 

not true, many men and women are incapable of having/making kids (medically)...

 

That's a medical condition, not their loss of their right.

 

bear a child means to have one naturally (give birth), if they cannot do that, they do not have the right...

what is a right that cannot be exercised or demonstrated?

 

No one put a gun to their head and disallowed it, they can't do it. Id have a right to fly if I had wings, however I don't have wings, so I can't; has nothing to do with rights.

 

Its not a right...that's the point...many people are born without being able to have their own children, they never had the right because they were born that way...

Bearing kids is not a natural right

Again, what is a right that cannot be exersized or demonstrated?

 

You don't understand what a right is I think. A right doesn't imply the capability. It just means there is no legal penalty for doing it.


Edit- the more I think about it I think you might be right, I'm talking about legal rights. But I guess that would be considered a "natural" right. Semantics...

 

good topic, i've thought about this often. i'm too high to contribute but if i remember to i'll come back here to post when i'm more sober
 
enjoy your weather OP 

 

But I think we need to clarify if OP meant is it right as in a good thing to do. Or if he meant do you have the right to do it

 

It was never about legal rights, it was said natural right, which cannot be true since there are people incapable of having children naturally...so is it a right but only for some people?

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Yes. I think everyone that can and want to have a child should have children.   

 

 
I'd define it as the ability to exercise a person's will to do something.
 

 
Sorry, every fertile person.
 
 

 
I say yes. I still use the internet, despite all the fucked up shit it contains. I'll even let my kids use it. Know why? Because I'll teach them how to decide what is right for them.. although I will shelter them from what I can for awhile

 

I think everyone should definitely be allowed to have children, but for myself, I'm of the same opinion of the OP.
 
For one, I would never want to carry a child despite (presumably) being able to. That just seems uncomfortable and tiring, not to mention would probably make my dysphoria really bad. If I was with a partner who desperately wanted children, I would parent the child but we'd have to either adopt or they would have to get pregnant. Adoption would be preferable though, as there are already sooooo many people on this planet including children who have very little hope for the future that I would feel guilty bringing another baby into the world when I could parent a child that already exists and faces a miserable future. The planet is already under so much strain, why birth another child? It's not like our species is in any imminent danger of being wiped out and we need to build up our population, if anything, there's too many of us.

 

i disagree with practically everything you said lol

 

i could have a child, my parents expect it to so i should, but i probably would not have kids. as for everyone else...who am i to be judging you?