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    Challenges→Bringing a person into existence can be justified even though it involves imposing harms on that person, because existence is a greater good that outweighs those harms.

    If this asymmetry obtains, then the harms imposed by bringing a person into existence cannot be offset by goods, because non-existence already avoids those harms without loss to any actual subject.

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    actual subject(distinguishes real people from hypothetical people who were never born)
    A real, living person or being who actually exists and can experience things.
    antinatalism (implied concept)(the underlying ethical debate this statement engages with)
    A philosophical view that argues bringing new people into existence is morally wrong because life contains unavoidable suffering.
    asymmetry(Modal logic frame semantics)
    A frame property expressible in hybrid logic by the formula c→□¬◇c, meaning if world x accesses world y, then y does not access x.
    non-existence(what the argument wrongly concludes)
    Something not being real or not actually existing.
    offset(as what cannot happen to wrongful convictions)

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