imagine being born to a paedophile. every day of your childhood you are used for their pleasure. you are helpless and completely controlled
the root words of paedophilia break down to child love, though that is not how the word is usually used today. so imagine that there is no (direct) sexual nature to the relationship - the love is more "nurturing"
so begins my internal rants - what are the proper motivations for reproduction? to answer this question, we must examine what it means to bring a person into existence. for now we might say that reproduction is enabling matter to be formed in our own image (at least partially our own image - cloning might be a better term for completely in our own image). now, we would only rightfully do this because it would make us happier. in order to maintain the nap it must also be a win for the child (or benign). however, we cannot truly say that we can empathize with another - we may try, but ultimately we see things through our own eyes - so even if we believe someone to be happy, they may not be. in the same manner, the things that make us happy may not make the offspring happy. finally, even if we knew what would make the new life happy, we are neither prescient enough to determine if those conditions will be satisfied, nor omnipotent enough to ensure they will be.
but misery loves company. so depriving myself of a childs' life, even if i'm miserable (which might be inherited by the kid) might be construed as aggression against self - i can take an action to relieve my misery but i don't. further, it only takes a short period of weakness to succumb to loneliness and conceive a being with the same flaw
but i'm ranting. read Rothbard and listen to Molyneux for more
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