Within Reason

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

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Apr 26, 2020
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 5min
2
Anti Natalism and Veganism - Is There a Utilitarian Approach?
04:40 • 2min
3
The Utilitarian Principle of Pain
06:37 • 2min
4
Are You Defining That Suffering Is Bad?
08:32 • 2min
5
Is It Wrong to Bring Someone Into Existence?
10:36 • 3min
6
Do You Think That Suffering Counts for More Than Pleasure?
13:19 • 2min
7
The Role Intuitions Play in Ethics
15:05 • 2min
8
Is There a Good Intuition?
17:08 • 2min
9
Is There Something Unusual About This Sonaria?
18:41 • 3min
10
Is There an Obligation Not to Bring a Child Into Existence?
21:14 • 3min
11
The Asymetry of the Anti-Natalism
23:49 • 2min
12
Is the Asymmetry a Good Argument for Anti Atalism?
25:34 • 2min
13
Is the Being in a State of Neutrality?
27:37 • 2min
14
Is There a Difference Between the Two Senarias?
29:22 • 3min
15
Is Life Worth Living?
32:51 • 2min
16
Is There an Interest in Continuing to Exist?
35:12 • 2min
17
Are Your Interests Set Back by Being Destroyed?
36:54 • 2min
18
Is Death a Good Thing?
39:11 • 2min
19
The Badness of Death
41:06 • 2min
20
Is Death Bad for the Person Who Dies?
43:10 • 2min
21
Is Anti Natalism Committed to Epicureanism?
45:38 • 2min
22
The Epicurean Can't Say That Death Is Bad
48:02 • 4min
23
Are You a Utilitarian or a Deontologist?
52:23 • 4min
24
What a Utilitarian Would Say?
56:48 • 3min
25
Is There a Competent Being, or a Nonexistent Being?
59:41 • 2min
26
Is There a Reliable Judgment in a Time Traveller?
01:01:18 • 2min
27
Is There a Real Person There?
01:03:00 • 2min
28
Is There a Difference Between Pain and Pleasure?
01:05:29 • 2min
29
Is There a Majority of Pleasure in the Existence?
01:07:36 • 2min
30
The Antinatless Conclusion Without the Axisological Asymmetry
01:09:39 • 3min
31
The Asymmetry Isn't Necessary
01:12:37 • 4min
32
Is Continued Life Bad?
01:16:29 • 3min
33
Should I Press the Button?
01:19:36 • 4min
34
Is It Good to Press the Button?
01:23:13 • 2min
35
I've Spelt Out for Different Options That I've Shown You.
01:25:02 • 2min