system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
What are good reasons for one to not procreate?
gpt
1) Procreation always entails a possibility of suffering of the child. It doesn't matter how small the probability of suffering is, the mere possibility suffices. To procreate is to gamble with someone's life.

2) To say that pleasures and joys of life are worth some amount of suffering is fallacious for two reasons: 
  a) What certainty do you have that the child will enjoy life more than he/she suffers? 
  b) Pain and pleasure are not symmetrical. Any amount of pleasure does not compensate or 'Erase' pain. Would you be willing to experience 1 minute of best pleasure you can think of followed by 1 minute of worst pain imaginable? 

3) What certainty do you have that the child would not inflict pain on other sentient beings?

4) Procreating is allocating the existing resources to a newly created life rather than using those resources for betterment of children who already exist and don't have a home i.e. orphans.