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Suppose that A harms B if and only if he stands in some appropriate relation to B’s suffering of some harm. Such an account of harming can explain how it is that those who choose Derek Parfit’s risky energy policy harm the future people later exposed to radiation, but can it also yield the result that parents who conceive a disabled child, when they could easily have conceived a different, non-disabled child instead, thereby harm the child they actually conceive?
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Hanser, M. (2009). Harming and Procreating. In: Roberts, M.A., Wasserman, D.T. (eds) Harming Future Persons. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 35. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5697-0_9
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