> Or do we also count the lives of the children that they might have?
No; it is absurd to even talk about. Run from anyone who thinks this is legitimate intellectual discourse.
Let's bite this trolling hook for a second. If you're going to count the lives of those nonexistent children, you have to also count and subtract the deaths they will cause. A few of those children might turn out to be be murderers. Others will cause accidents, maybe big ones. Others still will have consumption habits that snuff out future lives.
Imagine if Adolf Hitler's mother had died in some accident before he had been conceived and born; how would you tally the accident?
No; it is absurd to even talk about. Run from anyone who thinks this is legitimate intellectual discourse.
Let's bite this trolling hook for a second. If you're going to count the lives of those nonexistent children, you have to also count and subtract the deaths they will cause. A few of those children might turn out to be be murderers. Others will cause accidents, maybe big ones. Others still will have consumption habits that snuff out future lives.
Imagine if Adolf Hitler's mother had died in some accident before he had been conceived and born; how would you tally the accident?