Imagine if medicine valued the absence of negative affect as seriously as it values the absence of death
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“One of the implications of my argument is that a life filled with good and containing only the most minute quantity of bad—a life of utter bliss adulterated only by the pain of a single pin-prick—is worse than no life at all,” Benatar writes.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/09/the-case-against-kids …
haha I wrote a book about that - amusingly the more recent new yorker article name checks it
