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  1. Confessions of an Antinatalist Philosopher.Matti Häyry - forthcoming - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics:1-19.
    Antinatalism assigns reproduction a negative value. There should be fewer or no births. Those who say that there should be fewer births have been called conditional antinatalists. A better name for their view would be selective pronatalism. Those who say that there should be no births face two challenges. They must define the scope of their no-birth policy. Does it apply only to human or sentient beings or can it also be extended to all organic life, perhaps even to machine (...)
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  • The Unthinkable Conclusion: Derek Parfit’s Budding Antinatalism.Matti Häyry - forthcoming - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics:1-10.
    Derek Parfit famously opined that causing a person to exist with a life barely worth living can be wrong, although it is not wrong for that person. This conundrum is known as the nonidentity problem. Parfit also held that persons can, in a morally relevant sense, be caused to exist in the distant future by actions that make the agent a necessary condition for a person’s existence. When these views are combined, which he did, and applied explicitly to persons with (...)
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