Then what’s the qualifier about their lives being worth living there for? Presumably he believes it’s also not wrong to not create people whose lives would not be worth living, right?
Huh. Rereading it, your interpretation might make more sense. I was thinking about that as ‘even if their lives would be worth living, you don’t have an obligation to create new people’, which is a position that Peter Singer holds, but so is the position expressed after your correction.
Did you mean to write, “not wrong to create new people...” ?
No, that’s Singer’s position. He’s saying there is no obligation to create new people.
Then what’s the qualifier about their lives being worth living there for? Presumably he believes it’s also not wrong to not create people whose lives would not be worth living, right?
Huh. Rereading it, your interpretation might make more sense. I was thinking about that as ‘even if their lives would be worth living, you don’t have an obligation to create new people’, which is a position that Peter Singer holds, but so is the position expressed after your correction.