Although many currently living humans  report enjoying their lives and are glad they were born, this cannot extend to potential unborn people.  There isn’t a way for the nonliving to comprehend life and the pleasant things that one can experience while being alive. When we exist we regularly have needs and desires for pleasant conditions, experiences, and things that we strive for - sometimes, oftentimes, or chronically failing to achieve these needs and desires. When we don’t exist, we don’t need or desire anything whatsoever, and thus can’t experience deprivation.

Some of the common aspects of life that people enjoy include eating tasty food, spending time with friends and family, intimacy, consuming media, laughter, creating art, traveling, and enjoying the beauty of nature. However, one can only be harmed by missing out on experiencing pleasant things if one is alive, not if they never come into being to begin with. Parents or potential future parents state that they want to create life so that these not-yet-existing potential humans can come into the world and have the ability to experience wonderful things. Yet we have no responsibility to imaginary potential individuals who are not here. If any responsibility exists, it is to bring good things to living beings. The responsibility rests with actual individuals who are already here–  including the millions of children around the world in need of safe, nurturing, and loving homes, and the billions of nonhuman animals in need of rescue, safe havens, and basic dignity.