David Benatar's philosophical defense of anti-natalism — the view that it is always a serious harm to bring a new person into existence — grounded in the asymmetry between pleasure and pain.
The asymmetry: absent pain is good even without a beneficiary; absent pleasure is not bad without a deprived person; therefore non-existence always dominates existence from a welfare perspective.
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