Better Never to Have Been

Book • 2006

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Mentioned by Jordan B. Peterson, discussing Benatar's argument that life's suffering outweighs its good.

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Anthony Metivier as a philosophical text similar to John Danaher 's work.

Mentioned by Todd May in discussion of antinatalism.

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Alex O'Connor as a book discussing the asymmetry of suffering and pleasure, and antinatalism.

Mentioned as the author of the book that inspired the Palm Springs IVF clinic bomber.

Mentioned by Todd May as a book, that it's not an argument around extinction so much as an argument for each of us that it would be bad to have kids.

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