It doesn’t personally affect anyone. And they personally don’t care about having been created (again: they don’t have any preference about their existence). So is it bad to have created them?
I don’t know if I’m missing something obvious, but even though the birth itself doesn’t violate this mind’s preference, their birth creates a preference that cannot be fulfilled. So (under the usual psychology of what it’s like to have a frustrated preference) it is instrumentally bad to have created that mind.
I don’t know if I’m missing something obvious, but even though the birth itself doesn’t violate this mind’s preference, their birth creates a preference that cannot be fulfilled. So (under the usual psychology of what it’s like to have a frustrated preference) it is instrumentally bad to have created that mind.
instrumental to what purpose?
Instrumental to causing them to have a frustrated preference. If they weren’t born, they wouldn’t have that preference.