ABSTRACT
Anti-natalism is the view that procreation is invariably wrong to some degree and is often all things considered impermissible. Contemporary anti-natalism is fascinating and important for requiring sophisticated reflection on the evaluative question of how to judge the worthwhileness of lives and on the normative question of what basic duties entail for the creation of new lives. Negative utilitarianism is well-known for entailing anti-natalism as well as pro-mortalism, the view that it is often prudent for individuals to kill themselves and often right for them to kill others, even without their consent. Creating a new life is not necessary to fulfil the duty to promote happiness, since if one refrained from procreation no victim would exist.
