Is There a Competent Being, or a Nonexistent Being?

There's a crucial difference. The one is you dealing with a competent being, and the other isyou dealing with a non existent being. So it may well be that i believe the competent being is wrong. But i don't believe i'm entitled to interfere with them. Because we are fallible. And they get to decide for themselves if they're making a mistake. That's their business. Now, when you're tinking about bringing somebody into existence, this is an entirely different sonoria. Not only is there no competent being, there, there's no being at all. You can prevent everything that would happen to that person by not bringing them into existence without any cost to