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Is this a valid usage of the reduction?

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Original Question

The topic is about whether it is a “good” thing to procreate. There are many reasons one can conjure up to say it’s good or at least permissible to create human beings, but there are some arguments that seem, to me at least, valid? In a sense that they don’t outright commit any fallacies. So I was wondering if such arguments like the one I’m about to mention do commit fallacies or perhaps reasoning errors? My failure to spot any possible fallacies is the reason why I resorted to using reductio.


Premise 1: I want to experience what it is like to raise my own child 


Conclusion: Therefore, I will try and bring my child into existence.


The reductio would be something like this: I want to experience what it is like to hurt another human being, therefore I will hurt a human being. 


Answers

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This just follows the pattern: I want to do X, so I will do X. No fallacies because there is no argument. There is no reasoning process either; it is simply a declaration of what one wants to do with the personal philosophy that one does what one wants to do.

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