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

Within Reason

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Is Death Bad for the Person Who Dies?

i don't think that we can definitively disprove the epicurean view, which is exactly why its being resilient over millennia. But if we wanting to know whether we ought to accept this view, we need to balance our different considerations. Ye, i suppose what i'm trying to do is express what i feel, and what i know a lot of my audience have felt when encountering antinatalism. It seems on the surface level to be an unintuitive view, but once you become convinced of the the symmetry, or something like that, it leads me to the unintuitive conclusion that death is not bad for the person d a.

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