Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
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Written by David Benatar, 'Better Never to Have Been' is a seminal work in antinatalist philosophy. Benatar argues that coming into existence is always a serious harm, and therefore it is immoral to procreate. He supports this view with an 'asymmetry argument' between pleasure and pain, suggesting that while the absence of pleasure is not bad for a non-existent being, the absence of pain is good. The book explores the implications of this argument for human existence and suffering.
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He wrote a book called Better Never to Have Been, which sounds like one of these sort of you know, I'm about to write about how terrible how terrible life is.
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"The speaker introduced David Benatar as the 'superstar of anti-natalism' and explicitly mentioned his book 'Better Never to Have Been' as a key text for understanding the view that it is immoral to have children."
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