Antinatalist Advocacy | Ep. 11 | Criticisms of antinatalism and Effective Altruism with Rivka Weinberg @AntinatalistAdvocacy | Uploaded May 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Welcome back to AAP! We were really grateful this month to host Professor Rivka Weinberg to criticise the two ideologies that guide a lot of our thinking at Antinatalist Advocacy, namely antinatalism and Effective Altruism. Can it sometimes be ethical to procreate? Does Effective Altruism hold up to scrutiny in both theory and practice? And is John hopelessly misguided for being a card-carrying consequentialist? Let us know your thoughts below!
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro to the episode
02:27 Intro to Rivka
05:59 The role of temperemant in attitudes towards procreation
10:06 Objections to Benatar's and Shiffrin's antinatalist arguments
22:32 Objections to misanthropic antinatalist arguments
33:01 The opportunity cost of having children
39:14 The opportunity cost of NOT having children
42:15 Rivka's arguments for procreative permissibility
47:08 Criticisms of Effective Altruism
53:24 The dangers of 'ends justify the means' thinking
55:31 Our obligations to help others
1:01:00 Effective Altruism in practice
1:10:20 'Local' good
1:15:53 Final comments
1:19:16 A positive note to end
1:20:55 Outro
ANTINATALIST ADVOCACY
Newsletter: antinatalistadvocacy.org/newsletter
Website: antinatalistadvocacy.org
Rivka Weinberg
- The Risk of a Lifetime: https://amzn.eu/d/3MwwBHe
- Existence: Who needs it?: bit.ly/4bB0jtb
- Risk, Responsibility, and Procreative Asymmetries: bit.ly/3wyGGDs
- It Ain’t My World: https://community.scrippscollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ItAintMyWorld.pdf
- Do You Act As You Argue? Or Do You Argue for How You Act?: bit.ly/3wx4EyX
Check out the links below!
- AAP Ep. 10: youtu.be/UxhxMQOnTGc?feature=shared
- David Benatar: Better Never to Have Been: https://amzn.eu/d/enFQbw8
- Seana Shiffrin: Consent and the Morality of Procreation: bit.ly/3QJQ3qG
- Effective Altruism: effectivealtruism.org
- Peter Singer: Famine, Affluence, and Morality: bit.ly/4byB8aK
- The Sam Bankman-Fried FTX controversy: forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/sam-bankman-fried
Welcome back to AAP! We were really grateful this month to host Professor Rivka Weinberg to criticise the two ideologies that guide a lot of our thinking at Antinatalist Advocacy, namely antinatalism and Effective Altruism. Can it sometimes be ethical to procreate? Does Effective Altruism hold up to scrutiny in both theory and practice? And is John hopelessly misguided for being a card-carrying consequentialist? Let us know your thoughts below!
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro to the episode
02:27 Intro to Rivka
05:59 The role of temperemant in attitudes towards procreation
10:06 Objections to Benatar's and Shiffrin's antinatalist arguments
22:32 Objections to misanthropic antinatalist arguments
33:01 The opportunity cost of having children
39:14 The opportunity cost of NOT having children
42:15 Rivka's arguments for procreative permissibility
47:08 Criticisms of Effective Altruism
53:24 The dangers of 'ends justify the means' thinking
55:31 Our obligations to help others
1:01:00 Effective Altruism in practice
1:10:20 'Local' good
1:15:53 Final comments
1:19:16 A positive note to end
1:20:55 Outro
ANTINATALIST ADVOCACY
Newsletter: antinatalistadvocacy.org/newsletter
Website: antinatalistadvocacy.org
Rivka Weinberg
- The Risk of a Lifetime: https://amzn.eu/d/3MwwBHe
- Existence: Who needs it?: bit.ly/4bB0jtb
- Risk, Responsibility, and Procreative Asymmetries: bit.ly/3wyGGDs
- It Ain’t My World: https://community.scrippscollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ItAintMyWorld.pdf
- Do You Act As You Argue? Or Do You Argue for How You Act?: bit.ly/3wx4EyX
Check out the links below!
- AAP Ep. 10: youtu.be/UxhxMQOnTGc?feature=shared
- David Benatar: Better Never to Have Been: https://amzn.eu/d/enFQbw8
- Seana Shiffrin: Consent and the Morality of Procreation: bit.ly/3QJQ3qG
- Effective Altruism: effectivealtruism.org
- Peter Singer: Famine, Affluence, and Morality: bit.ly/4byB8aK
- The Sam Bankman-Fried FTX controversy: forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/sam-bankman-fried
