Quotes by David Benatar, Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence

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It is not the case that one can create new people on the assumption that if they are not pleased to have come into exist — David Benatar, Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
This is not to offer a general recommendation of suicide. Suicide, like death from other causes, makes the lives of thos — David Benatar, Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
I shall not assess arguments and evidence for competing views about when human extinction will occur. We know it will oc — David Benatar, Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
Fulfilled desires, like pleasures (even of the intrinsic kind), are states of achievement rather than default states. Fo — David Benatar, Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
Only an unsatisfied preference is bad. In other words, he argues that although it is good to have fulfilled whatever des — David Benatar, Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence