The “anti-natalist” philosopher David Benatar believes that life is so painful that human beings should stop having children for reasons of compassion.http://nyer.cm/MFcW9Wd
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Benatar's argument is more nuanced (although wrong IMHO). No matter how blissful life gets, the most he would concur is that one should be indifferent about bringing someone into existence. This comes out of his axiom that an absent good is not bad but an absent bad is good.
In other words, he builds his conclusion into his axiom.
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Exactly, he defines what is “good” and then builds an axiom out of it
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