Comment by mapontosevenths

> this is an unfortunately common viewpoint

Not everyone believes that the purpose of life is to make more life, or that having been born onto team human automatically qualifies team human as the best team. It's not necessarily unfortunate.

I am not a rationalist, but rationally that whole "the meaning of life is human fecundity" shtick is after school special tautological nonsense, and that seems to be the assumption buried in your statement. Try defining what you mean without causing yourself some sort of recursion headache.

> their child might wind up..

They might also grow up to be a normal human being, which is far more likely.

> if Norman Borlaug's parents had decided to never have kids

Again, this would only have mattered if you consider the well being of human beings to be the greatest possible good. Some people have other definitions, or are operating on much longer timescales.