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

Within Reason

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Are You Defining That Suffering Is Bad?

Oge: I think there's no contradiction between thinking that pain is intrinsically bad and sometimes instrumentally good. Oge: Why don't we talk through why it is immoral, in your view, to have children, or to bring new sentient creatures into existence? And and we'll see if this mi. Because i want ed to clarify that at the beginning, because i feel like this will help in form the discussion about the nature suffering for beings that do not exist.

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