Critiquing Antinatalism & Effective Altruism w/ Rivka Weinberg | Ep. 11

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: https://antinatalistadvocacy.org/news... Website: https://antinatalistadvocacy.org/ 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/... 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:    • Criticisms of Antinatalist Advocacy w/ Len...   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/t...