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Essay / Derek Parfit's Global Values, by David Benatar
A perfect example is when a potential parent goes to the doctor and the doctor tells her that if she became pregnant at that time, the child would If she were to give birth would be severely autistic and a child she would give birth to a year later would be healthy, then this difficult decision she makes is an example of a conundrum of choices that would have enormous effects on the future. At this point, Parfit cannot address wrongdoing in the case of the non-identity intuition, because there is no one else being taken advantage of and no one is being harmed either. Benatar sees wrong in this intuition, because for him he finds the victim and in this case, if the parent chose to give birth to a baby, this bad action would cause harm to the baby. The state of affairs in which we exist is evil while the states of affairs in which we do not exist are evil..