This is the world's biggest possible consent issue IMO At least in a world where contraception is readily available, to steal a living, breathing, thinking being from the void and force it to exist is inherently a choice that is imposed on that being, by its parents
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Anyway as others have pointed out, most notably David Benatar in his big antinatalist manifesto ("Better Never to Have Been"), it's really not about judging how good or bad life is on the whole It's about the asymmetry between help and harm
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Most people think that there's something worse about causing suffering than just refraining from causing pleasure If I go out every day and flip a coin to see whether I give a stranger $100 or kick them hard in the stomach I'm not a morally "neutral" agent
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