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

7 hours, 26 minutes first pub 2006 (view editions) user-added

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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3.82
based on 220 reviews

Moods

challenging: 84%

informative: 78%

reflective: 63%

dark: 36%

sad: 15%

inspiring: 5%

mysterious: 5%


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43% of readers chose medium
56% of readers chose slow
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