AAP Ep. 11 - Criticisms Of Antinatalism And Effective Altruism With Rivka Weinberg The Antinatalist Advocacy podcast

AAP Ep. 11 - Criticisms of antinatalism and Effective Altruism with Rivka Weinberg

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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

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Rivka Weinberg

The Risk of a Lifetime: https://amzn.eu/d/3MwwBHe
Existence: Who needs it?: https://bit.ly/4bB0jtb
Risk, Responsibility, and Procreative Asymmetries: https://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?: https://bit.ly/3wx4EyX

Check out the links below!

AAP Ep. 10: https://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: https://bit.ly/3QJQ3qG
Effective Altruism: https://www.effectivealtruism.org/
Peter Singer: Famine, Affluence, and Morality: https://bit.ly/4byB8aK
The Sam Bankman-Fried FTX controversy: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/sam-bankman-fried

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