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    Parfit's work on non-identity demonstrates that potential... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→It is morally wrong for anyone to have children, given Christian exclusivism and the traditional doctrine of hell.

    Parfit's work on non-identity demonstrates that potential persons who would not otherwise exist cannot coherently be said to be wronged by being brought into existence.

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    • 1.Harm requires making someone worse off than they otherwise would have been in a counterfactual comparison.
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    • 2.Non-existence is not a state that can be worse or better—it involves no experiences or welfare to compare.
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    • 3.Without an alternative scenario where the same person exists with better conditions, no coherent harm claim can be made.
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    • 1.Wronging need not require comparative harm; creating a life of severe suffering can be wrong even if non-existence isn't 'better.'
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    • 2.Parents can violate duties to future people by choosing procreation under conditions predictably causing suffering.
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    • 3.The non-identity problem may show limits in one harm concept but not eliminate all moral wrongs in reproductive choices.
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