ABSTRACT
This chapter explains David Benatar’s argument, and develops an objection to it. It defends the objection from two arguments that might be made in response to it. David Benatar is not like most people. Benatar’s argument is based on the claim that there is an important asymmetry between pleasure and pain. Following Benatar, we can think about what RAP would entail about the case of the Lucky Couple by considering the relevance of the pain that the child would suffer and the relevance of the pleasure that the child would enjoy independently. Benatar’s RAP entails that the Lucky Couple harms the child that it conceives.
