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

Within Reason

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Is There a Majority of Pleasure in the Existence?

"The absence of all the pain that they would be in the in the life of the existing person, that is good in the sense that it is better than that alternative," he says. "Why can we not say that existing in that instance is a good compared to the neutrality? Of existence if there is a majorityof pleasure?" 'Even inacom i sense it's not worse,' argues philosopher John Rawls.

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