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2 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 04 December 2014 01:38PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 07 December 2014 01:47:33PM 0 points [-]

As far as I can tell (please do post suggestions), there is no way of aggregating impacts on potential people you are creating.

Never-created humans have no experiences. Created humans have some experiences. Suffering is an experience. Created humans suffer more than never-created humans - infinitely more so. Whether the experiences of not-suffering outweigh the suffering in created humans is a different topic.

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