Most people believe that they were either benefited or at least not harmed by being brought into existence. Thus, if they ever do reflect on whether they should bring others into existence---rather than having children without even thinking about whether they should---they presume that they do them no harm. Better Never to Have Been challenges these assumptions. David Benatar argues that coming into existence is always a serious harm. Although the good things in one's life make one's life go better than it otherwise would have gone, one could not have been deprived by their absence if one had not existed. Those who never exist cannot be deprived. However, by coming into existence one does suffer quite serious harms that could not have befallen one had one not come into existence. Drawing on the 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. The author then argues for the 'anti-natal' view---that it is always wrong to have children---and he shows that combining the anti-natal view with common pro-choice views about foetal moral status yield a 'pro-death' view about abortion (at the earlier stages of gestation). Anti-natalism also implies that it would be better if humanity became extinct. Although counter-intuitive for many, that implication is defended, not least by showing that it solves many conundrums of moral theory about population.
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從思想性來講,我認為Dr. Benatar的這本Better Never to Have Been已經做到瞭最好。 其實反齣生主義的核心概念比較好理解,我在另一篇文章[《為什麼生孩子永遠是個錯誤》]通過Dr. Bentatar的論點證明瞭為什麼生孩子對這個“潛在的孩子”來說永遠是個錯誤,感興趣的可以看一下。...
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評分基督徒可以不用讀下去瞭,我這篇東西也好,這本書也好,都是。因為神叫你們要“生養眾多”。人的話語怎能敵神的誡命呢?真的,其他有類似教條的信徒也一樣。下文僅針對他們之外的人群。 本書的核心觀點在序言的第一段就明確給齣:降生到世上總是傷害(coming into existence i...
評分基督徒可以不用讀下去瞭,我這篇東西也好,這本書也好,都是。因為神叫你們要“生養眾多”。人的話語怎能敵神的誡命呢?真的,其他有類似教條的信徒也一樣。下文僅針對他們之外的人群。 本書的核心觀點在序言的第一段就明確給齣:降生到世上總是傷害(coming into existence i...
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