The “anti-natalist” philosopher David Benatar believes that life is so painful that human beings should stop having children for reasons of compassion.http://nyer.cm/MFcW9Wd
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Don't tell Buddhists
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Where is your neutral baseline? doesn't seem like something you could use the word empirically about. For example, at this exact moment I'm not sure if I'm above or below neutral in terms of happiness.
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if i recall, benatar's core claim is hard to fit into an empirical / consequentialist framework. it's more like: for various (dubious) reasons, we have an obligation not to harm the unborn, but we don't get offsetting credit for benefitting the unborn.
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