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Thanks for the post, very interesting. Are you claiming that it is permissible for you to have a child, despite the resources it directs away from effective altruism? Or is it that, as an empirical matter, it's highly likely that refraining from procreating would in fact render you a less effective altruist? Also, and forgive me if this is too personal, do you think it would be better for you to adopt, thereby directing your resources to someone who already exists? Or do you consider it basically a wash, and figure that it's important to you to have biologically related children? Perhaps you take a position I haven't considered. Again, I apologize if the questions are too personal, I find this particular topic very fascinating and you seem open to discussing it. I'm not sure what the difference is between your first two questions. Ideally, I would just be happy regardless and wouldn't have diverted the resources away from helping other people. Practically, it didn't look like that wa

Giving Gladly: Cheerfully Saturday, June 8, 2013 Cheerfully As a young person, I was extremely struck by the realization that my choice to donate or not meant the difference between someone else’s living and dying. A lot of decisions started to look very starkly wrong. I remember telling my dad that I had decided it would be immoral for me to have children, because they would take too much of my time and money away from better causes. “It doesn't sound like this lifestyle is going to make you happy,” he said. “My happiness is not the point,” I told him. A few year

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