Happy to Exist? Don't be so sure . . .

Here's a provocative paper by NYU philosophy prof Elizabeth Harman: The Mistake in "I'll Be Glad I Did It" Reasoning: Why Curing Deafness Isn't Wrong, and Aborting You or Me Wouldn't Have Been Either.  The thrust of her argument seems to be that changes in our lives over time can make us glad that certain things happened even though they were not for the best.

Rob