Antinatalism
Coming into existence is always a harm, so procreation is not justified.
What it claims
Antinatalism holds that bringing a new person into existence is morally wrong. Benatar's (2006) central argument invokes an asymmetry between pleasure and pain. The presence of pain is bad and the presence of pleasure good.
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Key thinkers
David Benatar · Arthur Schopenhauer · Seana Shiffrin · Peter Wessel Zapffe · Julio Cabrera