Questions related to the belief that having children is morally wrong.
Questions tagged [antinatalism]
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What are the arguments against thesis of injustice of antinatalism?
If it’s morally wrong to condemn an innocent life to death, then it’s also morally wrong to procreate.Source
According to the author, it is unjust to procreate because, when we procreate we condemn an innocent to death.
Perhaps the premise that…
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What is the best argument against the argument of consent in antinatalism?
Seana Shiffrin, Gerald Harrison, Julia Tanner and Asheel Singh argue that procreation is morally problematic because of the impossibility of obtaining consent from the human who will be brought into existence.
Shiffrin lists four factors that in…
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Why can a human never have a child for a potential child's sake?
Source: Benatar, David. Better Never to Have Been (2008 1 edn).
[p. 2 Top:] Creating new people, by having babies, is so much a part of
human life that it is rarely thought even to require a justification.
Indeed, most people do not even think…
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How may there be more people than there could be for very long, if there'll never be more people than there could be?
Source: Benatar, David. Better Never to Have Been (2008 1 edn). pp. 165-166.
I don't understand the semantic distinction between 1 and 2 beneath.
OVERPOPULATION
At the time this is being written, there are about 6.3 billion people
alive.³ Very…
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Where does Benatar defend in 'Better Never to Have Been' that (though logically possible) absence of pleasure can't be bad?
Source: Benatar, David. Better Never to Have Been (2008 1 edn). pp. 30 Bottom - 31 Top.
[...] it strikes me as true that
(3) the absence of pain is good, even if that good is not enjoyed
by anyone,
whereas
(4) the absence of pleasure…
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What's incongruous in this joke? ‘Never to be born would be the best thing [...] But this happens to scarcely 1 person in 100,000.’
Source: Benatar, David. Better Never to Have Been (2008 1 edn). pp. 3 Bottom - 4 Top.
WHO IS SO LUCKY?
A version of the view I defend in this book is the subject of some
humour:
Life is so terrible, it would have been better not to have been…
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