If a child is born in an airplane, where is it from?

Since my parents, not me, made the choice for me to be born don't they have to support me for my lifetime?

• Since my parents, not me, made the choice for me to be born don't they have to support me for my lifetime So if most people must work in our society to get money for consumption and to survive, and most people do not find their jobs in anyway satisfying... and a huge chunk of our lives are filled with this drudgery, why do we consent to live this way? A follow up question, If we are condemned to a course where nothing fulfills us in a work life, and we are forced into this unfulfilling unsatisfying position for much of our life by being born (which we didn't choose), was this a good decision by parents who knew this was going to be the lot of their child's life (which they can fathorm because they see that most people must do this)? In other words, does the fore-knowledge of condemning their child to an almost inevitable wage/salary unsatisfying life, make it wrong for them to put their child in this position? (I realzie that some people like their jobs, but a majority do not, so in a consequentialist approach I am taking the fact that the greater amount of people are not benefited by having to work). A follow up question to this, and a deeper one is: If a person didn't want to be born, and that person is forced to do himself harm in order to get out of life, was it moral for parents to put a being in that situation, if they know that that is a possibility? The only option for the child is to accept life or do itself the ultimate harm...would you call that moral to put that undo decision on the offspring? To work harder and study harder, does not take away from the fact that work can be stressful, menial, tedious, unsatisfying, etc.. But almost all of us take up 40 hours of our week with it. Sure, its the other side of leisure time, its the necessary evil, why is it acceptable that this is how it should be? And if your automatic response is "because there's no better way", then, why put more people into the world to experience this tedium/unsatisfying/stressfulness? If you're automatic response to this question is "working builds character or virtue (or some other nonsense)", my response is: "go join the sado-masichist club in your town, because in my opinion, you are imposing pain on a new being for the enjoyment of watching some supposed good consequence happen down the line (the child builds character or virtue)." In other words, its NOT ok to have children knowing they will suffer merely for the possible outcome of the child building more character. And that's assuming that work even does build character. That can be another argument. By work I'm defining what we do to stay alive. As far as leisure-work, that is a value statement to say that people should be working towards creativity. I mean it sounds like a good thing to do, but what makes that the goal, just because it might sound like a noble pursuit to some individuals? And what is defined as "self improvement"? Is this just something everyone should know? Is this something that society should know? Can society ever know that? Also, if the goal of leisure time is to work on creativity, personal growth and self-improvement and an individual who is born does not want to pursue this purpose of life, its a bad choice for that individual. Either the individual must live a life of trying to pursue "self-improvement" (which is not something the individual would like to do) or commit suicide (which is another thing the individual does not want to do). So the parent again, has put the child in a situation where it must accept the terms of life or commit suicide. The crux of the matter is, parents should be able to project upon the child's future life in a realistic fashion. I observe that parents DON'T project how their child's whole life will probably be in any realistic manner. The responsibility is on the parents to project a realistic view of their child's life rather than the idealistic pollyanaizing that occurs. By pollyanaizing i mean that they only imagine their child living the best of situations which is unrealistic and detrimental to the child who will in turn be born and obviously not live the charmed life the parents had imagined. I've read David Benator's book and I simply can't see how anyone can disagree with his conclusions if they follow his main argument with a clarity of thinking philosophers should be prepared to cultivate. I am going to explain his theory in more detail than previous posters on this forum because an overview of his book warrants and requires careful wording in order to facilitate full comprehension in the reader. His argument is simple but devastatingly persuasive. He states that if you are born you experience both good (positive mental states) and bad (negative mental states) during the course of your life. If, however, one is never born then one won't experience bad (pain, anxiety, discomfort etc). This is a good thing obviously. Of course, if one is never born one never experiences any po

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  Someone took their first philosophy class didn't they? Your spoiled narcissistic entitled attitude is precious. Listen life sucks, it's unfair, and yes you'll have to do **** you don't necessarily want to do to provide for yourself in life. Lame I know, get over it and do something about it. I hate people like you that just whine about problems but want nothing to do with coming up with the solution. And you only think short term. Sometimes you have to sacrifice things in the beginning to get what you want later on in life. Yes my job sucks and I resent having to sit at a desk all day but hey guess what? I'll take that hit if it means being closer to my ultimate goal in life. But find a hobby your passionate about and find a way to make that part of your job. Now if you decided you don't want or need any of the extras of today- ie cell phone, nice car, clothes, a decent place to live- then cool beans you'll have an easier time paying bills and take whatever job your heart desires. But don't think just because your a lazy *** that doesn't want to work that your parents have to support you. They don't owe you anything nor does society. If you don't like the game and want to change it, you're not going to do it by b*t#hing from the sidelines. Put your head in it and change it from the inside. Oh by the way try to be a little more concise. Your teachers will appreciate it more than your overly wordy babel that you use to make yourself sound more intelligent. It doesn't. Your just regurgitating other peoples thoughts without thinking about it yourself.