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

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Do You Think That Suffering Counts for More Than Pleasure?

Anti-natalism is based on the idea that suffering counts for more than pleasure, in some way, shape or form. But you might give an example of a mars and how it's not a bad thing that there's no pleasure up there. And yet we do think it's a good thing that there’s no suffering. Do you think that a lot of this rests on nothing more than intuition? The reason i ask that is because with some of the examples that you give of a different kinds of asymmetry,. I recognize this as the important sticking point for anti natalism.

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