Perché è meglio non venire mai al mondo
Why it is better never to come into existence Not coming into existence would be good, since existence has no net advantage over non-existence. Indeed, the presence of pain is bad, and the presence of pleasure is good for every existent. However, an equivalent symmetrical consideration does not app...
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Not coming into existence would be good, since existence has no net advantage over non-existence. Indeed, the presence of pain is bad, and the presence of pleasure is good for every existent. However, an equivalent symmetrical consideration does not apply to the absence of pain and pleasure. Indeed, the absence of pain is good even if there is no one to experience that absence, while the absence of pleasure is not bad if there is nobody to be deprived of that pleasure. The argument just presented forms the core of the article, along with other considerations about the preferability of not bringing children into the world, the quality of human life, the unreliability of subjective judgments about one's existential condition, the preferability to phase human extinction |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2abc625400234f8b8145c9d5013ed7402022-12-22T03:02:43ZengS&F_scienzaefilosofia.itS&F_scienzaefilosofia.it2036-29272022-06-0127314336Perché è meglio non venire mai al mondoBENATAR, DAVID0Cape Town UniversityWhy it is better never to come into existence Not coming into existence would be good, since existence has no net advantage over non-existence. Indeed, the presence of pain is bad, and the presence of pleasure is good for every existent. However, an equivalent symmetrical consideration does not apply to the absence of pain and pleasure. Indeed, the absence of pain is good even if there is no one to experience that absence, while the absence of pleasure is not bad if there is nobody to be deprived of that pleasure. The argument just presented forms the core of the article, along with other considerations about the preferability of not bringing children into the world, the quality of human life, the unreliability of subjective judgments about one's existential condition, the preferability to phase human extinctionhttps://www.scienzaefilosofia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/19-BENATAR.pdfexctintionbornexistence |
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| title_short | Perché è meglio non venire mai al mondo |
| title_sort | perche e meglio non venire mai al mondo |
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