Derek Parfit argues in the article “Future People, the Non‐Identity Problem, and Person‐Affecting Principles” that creating people whose lives are worth living is good, even if they would not have existed otherwise. In other words, if our lives are worth living, we are benefited by being caused to exist. Parfit goes on to answer various imaginable objections as to why we might not want to create many future generations. Unfortunately, the article is a draft, as he passed away before completing revisions, but I believe it worth reading.
Derek Parfit argues in the article “Future People, the Non‐Identity Problem, and Person‐Affecting Principles” that creating people whose lives are worth living is good, even if they would not have existed otherwise. In other words, if our lives are worth living, we are benefited by being caused to exist. Parfit goes on to answer various imaginable objections as to why we might not want to create many future generations. Unfortunately, the article is a draft, as he passed away before completing revisions, but I believe it worth reading.
Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/papa.12088
Thanks, this looks very interesting.