Creating a new intelligent species is not lightly to be undertaken from a purely ethical perspective; if you create a new kind of person, you have to make sure it leads a life worth living.
The unspoken bias here is that antinatalism (also an ethic) is not an ethic. Antinatalism says it is not ethical to create new life. Fine to disagree, false to say this ethic does not exist.
Antinatalism shouldn’t be the perspective that it is unnecessary to ask the question of whether a new life is worth living, just the perspective that the answer is always “no.” Eliezer isn’t discounting this as a possible set of answers.
The unspoken bias here is that antinatalism (also an ethic) is not an ethic. Antinatalism says it is not ethical to create new life. Fine to disagree, false to say this ethic does not exist.
Antinatalism shouldn’t be the perspective that it is unnecessary to ask the question of whether a new life is worth living, just the perspective that the answer is always “no.” Eliezer isn’t discounting this as a possible set of answers.