On the lives not worth starting: a defence of the veil argument against the non-identity problem

• Main Author: Ang, Wei Xiang
• Other Authors: Andrew T. Forcehimes
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::Philosophy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/171518
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The non-identity problem is a problem about the actions that simultaneously bring people into existence and bestowing upon them lives that are inevitably flawed. Do we wrong a person by bringing her into existence when the alternative is that a different, non-identical person would’ve existed?...