"On my view there is no net benefit……" — David Benatar
"On my view there is no net benefit to coming into existence and thus coming into existence is never worth its costs."
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8 Quotes by David Benatar
David Benatar has 8 quotes on this site.
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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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Notice, by extension, that in a democracy those committed to non-procreation could never, in the long run, prevail politically against…
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Each one of us was harmed by being brought into existence. That harm is not negligible, because the quality of…
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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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It is unlikely that many people will take to heart the conclusion that coming into existence is always a harm.…
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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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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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