Citation

Benatar D. J. Ethics 2013; 17(1-2): 121-151.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10892-012-9133-7

PMID

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Abstract

In Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence, I argued that coming into existence is always a harm and that procreation is wrong. In this paper, I respond to those of my critics to whom I have not previously responded. More specifically, I engage the objections of Tim Bayne, Ben Bradley, Campbell Brown, David DeGrazia, Elizabeth Harman, Chris Kaposy, Joseph Packer and Saul Smilansky. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

Language: en

Keywords

Suicide; Quality of life; Anti-natalism; Betterness; Procreation; Value