"We infrequently contemplate the harms that await any……" — David Benatar
"We infrequently contemplate the harms that await any new-born child—pain, disappointment, anxiety, grief, and death. For any given child we cannot predict what form these harms will take or how severe they will be, but we can be sure that at least some of them will occur. None of this befalls the nonexistent. Only existers suffer harm."
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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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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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On my view there is no net benefit to coming into existence and thus coming into existence is never worth…
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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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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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