Asymmetries in the morality of causing people to exist

In David Wasserman & Melinda Roberts (eds.), Harming Future Persons. Springer. pp. 49--68 (2009)
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Reasons and Persons.Derek Parfit - 1984 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
Can we harm and benefit in creating?Elizabeth Harman - 2004 - Philosophical Perspectives 18 (1):89–113.

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