Each one of us was harmed by being brought into existence. That harm is not negligible, because the quality of even the best lives is very bad-and considerably worse than most people recognise it to be. Although it is obviously too late to prevent our own existence, it is not too late to prevent the existence of future possible people. Creating new people is thus morally problematic.
From David Benatar’s book Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence. Noted at Crooked Timber. Interesting!
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