Having children is an important aspect of peoples’ lives. I will take the intuition that there is something valuable about procreation as a starting point, and asks whether we can appeal to the value of procreation when engaged in liberal justification. This is an important question philosophically speaking, but it also has important implications. There is a lively debate, both in philosophy and society at large, about constraints on the right to procreate as well as about government family policies. The strength and the nature of the interest people have in procreation has implications for both of these debates. We cannot take a position, for example, on the permissibility of procreation in the light of sustainability issues, without a view on the value in procreation. In this paper I offer such an account. The aim of this paper is limited. First, this paper is about intentional voluntary procreation, not about cases where people are forced (by persons or circumstances) to procreate, or cases where people procreate unintentionally. Second, the view is incomplete. The view offered here does not offer conclusive arguments about whether procreation is all-things-considered (im)permissible. It offers one side of the story: an account of what makes procreation valuable, which will need to figure in any judgement about what is, all things considered, permissible. Nor does the paper address questions about the harm or benefit of coming into existence, which also has to figure in all things considered judgements.1

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生育的价值：有限和有条件生育权的初步案例

生孩子是人们生活的一个重要方面。我将以生殖具有某种有价值的直觉作为出发点，并询问我们在进行自由辩护时是否可以诉诸生殖的价值。从哲学上讲，这是一个重要的问题，但它也具有重要意义。关于生育权的限制以及政府的家庭政策，哲学界和整个社会都展开了热烈的辩论。人们对生育的兴趣的强度和性质对这两场辩论都有影响。例如，如果不考虑生育的价值，我们就不能根据可持续性问题对生育的允许性采取立场。在本文中，我提供了这样一个帐户。本文的目的是有限的。第一的，这篇论文是关于有意自愿生育的，而不是关于人们（被人或环境）强迫生育的情况，或者人们无意生育的情况。二是观点不全。这里提供的观点并没有提供关于生育是否是所有考虑（不）允许的决定性论点。它提供了故事的一个方面：对生育价值的解释，这需要在对所有考虑的事情进行任何判断时加以考虑。这篇论文也没有解决关于存在的危害或益处的问题，这也必须在所有被考虑的判断中考虑在内。 1 二是观点不全。这里提供的观点并没有提供关于生育是否是所有考虑（不）允许的决定性论点。它提供了故事的一个方面：对生育价值的解释，这需要在对所有考虑的事情进行任何判断时加以考虑。这篇论文也没有解决关于存在的危害或益处的问题，这也必须在所有被考虑的判断中考虑在内。 1 二是观点不全。这里提供的观点并没有提供关于生育是否是所有考虑（不）允许的决定性论点。它提供了故事的一个方面：对生育价值的解释，这需要在对所有考虑的事情进行任何判断时加以考虑。这篇论文也没有解决关于存在的危害或益处的问题，这也必须在所有被考虑的判断中考虑在内。 1