If bringing into existence lives that have positive wellbeing is at best neutral (and presumably strongly negative for lives with negative wellbeing) — why have children at all? Is it their instrumental value they bring in their lives that we’re after under this philosophy? (Sorry, I’m almost surely missing something very basic here — not a philosopher.)
If bringing into existence lives that have positive wellbeing is at best neutral (and presumably strongly negative for lives with negative wellbeing) — why have children at all? Is it their instrumental value they bring in their lives that we’re after under this philosophy? (Sorry, I’m almost surely missing something very basic here — not a philosopher.)