The Value of Becoming Actual: Antinatalism, Cosmic Meaning, and Ontological Natal Permissibilism
David Benatar’s antinatalism holds that coming into existence is always a harm and that procreation is therefore morally impermissible. This article develops a non-theistic alternative to a recent supernaturalist response to Benatar offered by Wakeman and Launonen. It defends ontological natal permissibilism: the vie...