"Each one of us was harmed by being……" — David Benatar
"Each one of us was harmed by being brought into existence. That harm is not negligible, because the quality of even the best lives is very bad—and considerably worse than most people recognize it to be. Although it is obviously too late to prevent our own existence, it is not too late to prevent the existence of future possible people."
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8 Quotes by David Benatar
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Creating new people, by having babies, is so much a part of human life that it is rarely thought even…
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It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them…
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On my view there is no net benefit to coming into existence and thus coming into existence is never worth…
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We infrequently contemplate the harms that await any new-born child—pain, disappointment, anxiety, grief, and death. For any given child we…
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As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born…
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