What Are Children For?
Jan 18, 2025•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
Yascha Mounk and Anastasia Berg discuss the case for having—or not having—kids.
Anastasia Berg is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine and an editor of The Point magazine. Berg is the co-author, with Rachel Wiseman, of What Are Children For? On Ambivalence and Choice.
In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Anastasia Berg discuss why many couples delay having children and the affirmative case for valuing human life; the moral and ethical implications of the decline in global fertility; and whether a world with fewer humans will be morally worse.
This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity.
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