A universal refusal to propagate the human species would be the greatest of conceivable crimes from a Utilitarian point of view. (Henry Sidgwick)

A universal refusal to propagate the human species would be the greatest of conceivable crimes from a Utilitarian point of view.

Henry Sidgwick

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