The procreation asymmetry, improvable-life avoidance and impairable-life acceptance

E. Thornley
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Many philosophers are attracted to a complaints-based theory of the procreation asymmetry, according to which creating a person with a bad life is wrong (all else equal) because that person can complain about your act, whereas declining to create a person who would have a good life is not wrong (all else equal) because that person never exists and so cannot complain about your act. In this paper, I present two problems for such theories: the problem of impairable-life acceptance and an especially acute version of the problem of improvable-life avoidance. I explain how these problems afflict two recent complaints-based theories of the procreation asymmetry, from Joe Horton and Abelard Podgorski.
生殖不对称、改善生活回避和损害生活接受
许多哲学家都被一种以抱怨为基础的生殖不对称理论所吸引,根据这种理论,创造一个生活糟糕的人是错误的(在其他条件相同的情况下),因为那个人可以抱怨你的行为,而拒绝创造一个生活美好的人并没有错(在其他条件相同的情况下),因为那个人从来就不存在,所以不能抱怨你的行为。在本文中,我提出了这类理论的两个问题:接受受损生活的问题和一个特别尖锐的回避改善生活的问题。我解释了这些问题是如何困扰乔·霍顿和阿伯拉德·波德戈尔斯基最近提出的两种基于抱怨的生殖不对称理论的。
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