"If people are badly off, suffering, or otherwise remediably miserable, it is not appropriate to address their ill-being by bringing more happy people into the world to counterbalance their disadvantage. We should instead improve the situation of those who are badly off."
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Clark Wolf, "O Repugnance, Where Is Thy Sting?" (2004)
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