I have to admit that I’ve never met someone in real life who makes that strong claim. Plenty make the much weaker claim that it’s much lower value to create future lives than to reduce current suffering. I personally don’t agree with that either—there’s no one-size-fits-all valuation of current or future entities.
I am arguing against the people who hold the person-affecting view and think it isn’t good to create happy people.
I have to admit that I’ve never met someone in real life who makes that strong claim. Plenty make the much weaker claim that it’s much lower value to create future lives than to reduce current suffering. I personally don’t agree with that either—there’s no one-size-fits-all valuation of current or future entities.
Well there are lots of people who defend this is philosophy and lots of normal people who adopt the view.