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taliesinb · 2015-12-27
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"Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence" http://www.amazon.com/Better-Never-Have-Been-Existence/dp/01...
Haven't read it, but the author taught a class I attended and it was great fun.
This assumption is challenged in David Benatar's provocative book "Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence"
https://www.amazon.com/Better-Never-Have-Been-Existence/dp/0...
The thesis (which seems absurd, and most will not accept it), is that coming into existence is an overall harm.
Whether one accepts that or not, human life is demonstrably not /good/ for almost all other life on this planet, since we compete with those resources and. As Elizabeth Kolbert points out, humans are causing the 6th great extinction.
> Bryan Caplan ...
Is a member of the Cato Institute, which is anti-population control.