The Biggest Unsolved Problem of Philosophy in 100 Years

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No a deaf guy shouldn't be glad for their parents. Many people are alive simply because they don't have the balls to kill themselves, I know cuz that's me. It's not a blessing to be alive for many it's a curse. Never having existed isn't a bad thing. And I wish I'd have never existed and even if I didn't, if I had an amazing life despite my parents being unfit, never having existed wouldn't affect how I feel cuz I wouldn't have felt anything

My wife and I did IVF. I am someone who thinks about all these kind of existential questions. So when the results came back, they had 4 viable options out of the whole lot, all with roughly equal chance to successfully go to term. We ideally wanted 2 children, we did the first one, and it was successful, and our first child was born. Of course then came the question, what if the second one works what about the others? I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I were to have them discard them. At that moment we both agreed we would use them all and if we ended up with 4 children, that was what was meant to happen, although we did not desire to have 4. Ended up the second and third attempts rejected, and the fourth produced our second child. I sleep better knowing that we gave all 4 a shot, but I also think about had the second one been successful it would have absolutely been a moral conundrum for me, versus what would be practical and affordable, kind of like the example of the lesser number having a higher quality of life or the larger number getting the opportunity to exist but having a lower quality as of course more sacrifices would have had to have been made by everyone to accommodate more mouths to feed.

I think a mistake people are making when they say "I would rather exist than not exist" or "existing is worse than non-existence" or "I don't want to not have existed" is they are looking at their life from the outside perspective of non-existence as if they are existing in that non-existence. This is natural and intuitive to think yet false because we can't actually conceive not existing. I believe the correct way of viewing all human life, including our own, is to assume any life can be substituted for another. From this perspective, choosing someone with a disability to be born is the SAME and disabling someone who would have been born without the disability. Also, policy "A" is the better one because it doesn't matter that people of policy "B" will never be born, what matters is that the policy "A" world is a better one for the people in it.

I think I've worked it out in my own way by looking at the graph and asking myself, 'which la vie en rose am i using to look at this "problem"?'

The identity problem is only a problem if you don’t believe in the soul and you consider that the hardware alone is what makes us who we are. Our soul was always going to be born.

It seems that the argument is fundamentally about the mother choosing to create a disabled child.

Exactly. Thank you for the arguments against abortion.

A smell of linguistic problem here

This is a materialist way of looking at it. As a soul; a spark of divine consciousness, we have existed since the first spark from the whole flew apart. I cannot imagine any mother who would want a disabled child for attention unless she had a serious psychological condition. This was actually the case with a medicine for insomnia during pregnancy those who took a pill for it and it caused congenital anomalies in the child, which was inadvertently caused. The reality likely is that there is completion to be born as souls want to work out their karma, in a physical form.

Boo disabled people

The society and world that has to provide for the disabled child has been wronged and the self seeking woman has been wronged by allowing herself self gratitude, that benifits nobody even herself.

My twins were conceived via IVF. We did choose to not implant any embryos with chromosomal issues. I do think about it but why would I choose to have a kid with a disability if we had the choice.