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#12 — David Benatar | Is It Immoral To Have Children?

Within Reason

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Is There Something Unusual About This Sonaria?

When i say that someting is better for somebody or worse for somebody, i'm having to make a comparison between two sconarios. One in which they do exist and one in which they don't exist. Most times when were thinking about whether something harms somebody orl benefit somebody, they exist in both of the sonarios. Now what we face with an unusual sonaria where the person doesn't exist in both options and both alternatives. We can adopt kind of procrastian view and assume that our usual concepts must apply unwaveringly in this unusual kind of case. But it's not wise to treat the unusual case like the usual. Much wiser to recognize to be something distinctive about

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