This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the
ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on" existential risks." Many leading …

In a series of books 1, David Benatar has argued that because pleasure and pain are
axiologically not symmetrical (ie the absence of pain is good even if not experienced, but the …

A very common but untested assumption is that potential children would consent to be
exposed to the harms of existence in order to experience its benefits (if it were possible for …

In the first part of the paper, I discuss Benatar's asymmetry argument for the claim that it
would have been better for each of us to have never lived at all. In contrast to other …

Benatar's central argument for antinatalism develops an asymmetry between the pain and
pleasure in a potential life. I am going to present an alternative route to the antinatalist …

Wer das eigene Leben für sinnlos hält, wird oft auch die Ansicht haben, dass es besser
wäre, nicht geboren worden zu sein. In diesem Beitrag wird untersucht, ob Äußerungen wie …

I argue that David Benatar's anti-natalism leads to pro-mortalism (the view that it is better to
cease to exist) because the human predicament as he describes it is a fate worse than …

HEAVENLY PROCREATION1 Page 1 FAITH AND PHILOSOPHY Vol. 39 No. 1 January
2022 doi: 10.37977/faithphil.2022.39.1.5 All rights reserved pp.100–123 HEAVENLY …

David Benatar has been championing the cause of the overall badness of human lives since
the turn of the century, most forcefully in his 2006 academic bestseller Better Never to Have …

David Benatar believes that (1) all human lives are very bad; that (2) some human lives are
worth continuing; and that (3) some human lives are not worth continuing. This article claims …