I think that various “pro-fertility” people have a variety of motivations.
But “more people are better” ought to be a belief of everyone, whether pro-fertility or not. It’s an “other things being equal” statement, of course—more people at no cost or other tradeoff is good. One can believe that and still think that less people would be a good idea in the current situation. But if you don’t think more people are good when there’s no tradeoff, I don’t see what moral view you can have other than nihilism or some form of extreme egoism.
BTW: I’m not ruling out an expansive definition of “people”—maybe gorillas are people, maybe some alien species are, maybe some AIs would be—but I think that’s outside the scope of the current discussion.
I think that various “pro-fertility” people have a variety of motivations.
But “more people are better” ought to be a belief of everyone, whether pro-fertility or not. It’s an “other things being equal” statement, of course—more people at no cost or other tradeoff is good. One can believe that and still think that less people would be a good idea in the current situation. But if you don’t think more people are good when there’s no tradeoff, I don’t see what moral view you can have other than nihilism or some form of extreme egoism.
BTW: I’m not ruling out an expansive definition of “people”—maybe gorillas are people, maybe some alien species are, maybe some AIs would be—but I think that’s outside the scope of the current discussion.