Re: The answer must be yes - always.
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The question asked is:
Do you want to make all people happier?
Then you stipulate that the end of mankind in this case will be in roughly 600 years.
My argument is simply that given the fact that the overall happiness was increased, the end of mankind must be irrelevant. Even though (for obvious reasons) most people likely finds the end of mankind to be something negative, the fact of this question is that everybody was made far happier by some scientific procedure. So this means that even if we set the number of years until sterility kicks in to 0, the answer must be yes, because the scientific procedure guarantees increased happiness, which means that whatever it is this procedure is doing, mankind finds more happiness from this, than sorrow from being sterile.
Simply put, there is no way any logical rational person ever can say anything else than yes to this question. If you disagree, you are simply not logical. As David points out - this question "can't really be debated logically".
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I disagree. The end of mankind is certainly not irrelevant, because we, as human beings have it ingrained within us to 'propagate the species'... it is so deeply ingrained that my very strong reaction to DS's question is a resounding NO... I would never want to make that "deal." How can it be "right" for someone today to make such a decision about something so ingrained (so "human") for ALL human beings in existence generations from now? It is not.
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