Better Never to Have Been The Harm of Coming into Existence

Name: Better Never to Have Been The Harm of Coming into Existence
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ISBN: 9780199549269

ISBN-10: 0199549265

ISBN-13: 9780199549269

Edition: 2008

Authors: David Benatar

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Most people believe that they were either benefited or at least not harmed by being brought into existence. Thus, if they ever do reflect on whether they should bring others into existence---rather than having children without even thinking about whether they should---they presume that they do them no harm. Better Never to Have Been challenges these assumptions. David Benatar argues that coming into existence is always a serious harm. Although the good things in one's life make one's life go better than it otherwise would have gone, one could not have been deprived by their absence if one had not existed. Those who never exist cannot be deprived. However, by coming into existence one does…

Book details

List price: $38.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.99" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.814

Sarah Herbert is a Local Authority Advisory Teacher and trainer with SENJIT. She spent much of her teaching career working as a special educational needs coordinator and teaching in and managing inclusive units within mainstream schools.




Introduction



Why coming into existence is always a harm



How bad is coming into existence?



Having Children: The Anti-Natal View



Abortion: The 'Pro-Death' View



Population and Extinction



Conclusion