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Political infeasibility at any given moment is no bar; on the contrary, it's the very reason for the causes to exist.
Material things depend upon causes to exist, both to become and to be.
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He infers from this that substances cannot be caused to exist or be prevented from existing by any other substance (Ip6).
And, in any case in which we are forced to concede that the person caused to exist has not been made worse off – any case in which the existence is unavoidably flawed but still worth having – we should acknowledge that it is not really clear to us at all that what has been done is wrong.
That is, nothing new is caused to exist unless there is a change in the cause.
The cosmological argument relies on the intelligibility of the notion of something which is not itself caused to exist by anything else.
The broader argument, then, is that, in any case in which it is clear to us that what is done is wrong, we can, on closer inspection, identify just how the people caused to exist have been made worse off.
The parent's and the policymaker's roles may differ in respect of the future persons their choices will cause to exist but agents in both roles can plausibly be held to a role-appropriate standard of concern (Wasserman 2009).
For the essence of consequentialism is still present in such positions: an action would be right only insofar as it maximizes these Good-making states of affairs being caused to exist.
Drawing on arguments by earlier Buddhist thinkers such as Dharmakīrti, Śāntarakṣita argues that if there were a uniform, permanent and unobstructed singularity, then everything it supposedly causes would have to exist all the time.
It is illogical to suggest that existence was caused because in order for something to cause something to exist it would have to exist prior to it thus disqualifying it as the cause of existence.
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