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

Within Reason

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Is Life Worth Living?

i don't think you need the axeologicalsymetry in order to generate antinates conclusions. You could get that by another roota, one which recognizes the predominance of bad over good in inner life. But dhad doesn't mean to say that we ought to reject the axeological symmetry. Just because you don't need it with some other set of assumptions, doesn't means to say oought to reject it. I do think that the quality of life can become so terrible that although you've got an interest in continuing to exist, your interest in avoiding all these horror s outweighs your interest in continue to exist. So i think different standards apply to the question whether life is worth

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