Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence by David Benatar

Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence

David Benatar

237 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy psychology challenging reflective slow-paced
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Better Never to Have Been argues for a number of related, highly provocative, views: (1) Coming into existence is always a serious harm. (2) It is always wrong to have children. (3) It is wrong not to abort fetuses at the earlier stages of gestati...

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challenging 100%
informative 62%
reflective 62%
dark 50%
mysterious 12%
sad 12%

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slow 42%

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