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Better never to have been : the harm of coming into existence / David Benatar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benatar, David, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Life.
- Life--Moral aspects.
- Human reproduction--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Human reproduction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 237 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Harm of coming into existence
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drawing on relevant psychological literature, the author shows that there are a number of well-documented features of human psychology that explain why people systematically overestimate the quality of their lives and why they are thus resistant to the suggestion that they were seriously harmed by being brought into existence.
- Contents:
- Why coming into existence is always a harm
- How bad is coming into existence?
- Having children: the anti-natal view
- Abortion: the 'pro-death' view
- Population and extinction.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-233) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-954926-5
- 1-280-75632-2
- 9786610756322
- 0-19-151631-7
- 1-4294-7114-X
- OCLC:
- 140072555
- Publisher Number:
- 9780199296422 (hbk.)
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