Round 14: Tossup 2

Specific term required. Adopting the fundamental ethical articulation requires holding this position according to Julio Cabrera, who wrote that its opposite places beings in a condition of structural negativity. Asheel Singh built on Seana (“shawna”) Shiffrin’s legal work to argue that acting against this position brings harm to non-consenting individuals. The title prophet advocates this position by concluding “let the earth be silent after ye” in Peter Wessel Zapffe’s essay “The Last Messiah.” A 2006 book advocating this position claims that an asymmetry exists (10[2])between the absence (10[1])of pain (10[4])and the absence (10[1])of (10[1])pleasure, arguing that (10[1])beginning (10[1])to exist will always (10[1])result (10[1])in net harm; (10[3])that (-5[1])argument for this position (10[1])appears in (10[1])South African (10[1])philosopher (10[1])David Benatar’s (10[1])Better Never to Have Been. (10[1])For 10 points, name this philosophical position that procreation is (10[1])morally wrong. ■END■ (10[1])

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