The testimony is granted, and it is the strongest form of the objection: the pain was real, it was bearable, and the life that carried it is one its holder would choose again. The question is what that balance licenses for anyone else. A sum does not record who carries which entry. Flat aggregation would therefore also license one person's delight outweighing another person's agony, which almost nobody accepts. The constraint that blocks it, a refusal to use one being as raw material for another's surplus, forbids the cradle for the same reason: a new person made the bearer of an uncapped risk so a balance comes out positive. The remaining alternative is that the child's own joys outweigh its own harms, which presupposes the subject whose creation is in question. Before the act there is no one for whom the joy is a good.