Jesus and free will

Glad you read that. Yes, I just don't think that it is ethically warranted to impose a lifetime of risk and potential harm on someone who cannot consent to that because they (the procreators) think that the potential benefit is worth the risk (without knowing whether the progeny are going to share that mindset. Moreover, the non-existent will never feel deprived of the existence that they could have had. The result is basically kind of akin to the inverse of the progressive taxation system whereby you end up with some wretched people at one end who end up with all the suffering (say, for example, a sweatshop worker in Bangladesh or an Indonesian patient in a psychiatric hospital), whilst the privileged enjoy all of the benefits (wealthy Americans and Europeans, but even amongst those populations there is considerable risk of non-trivial harm). A lot of atheists are quick to condemn the Christian God for leaving us on this dangerous planet, but are themselves very willing to play god by producing more people whom they will never be able to fully protect from risk and harm. 

Cupcakes thinks that this is some kind of a 'Dr Evil' philosophy; but it's actually about not imposing hazards upon people who cannot consent, just because the parents feel that their own lives will be enriched by the addition of children. That's a brief summary, anyway.