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Much respect to the various brilliant people who have made this argument, but it has never made sense to me.
You cannot compare experience to non-experience. By definition, not living is not negative or positive, it's nothing. No matter how many times you multiply zero by one, the answer is still zero. Something cannot be compared to nothing. In this case, a person who does not exist can never know that they do not exist, therefore to evoke their misfortune is meaningless.
For me, the only thing a life can be meaningfully compared with is another life.
This question seems to be an interesting case of conflicting intuition.
More than that. Being dead will save me from pain, but unfortunately dying is painful. And I can't handle that. I wish I could have lots of money to kick my problems away and buy me company, maybe a wife.