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Because society as a whole spent resources on you to educate you and turn you into productive member of the society.

Its your responsibility to repay that debt by reproducing.

This is one of the strange explanations I usually get.

That's actually not a strange argument. It's semantically identical to the widely-held belief that the benefits of order, safety, and education granted by the government morally obligates one to pay taxes.

One could argue that the people making 'that' argument should probably not be reproducing ;-) !

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