Better Never to Have Been The Harm of Coming into Existence

Name: Better Never to Have Been The Harm of Coming into Existence | The Harm of Coming into Existence
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The Harm of Coming into Existence

BENATAR DAVID(Autor*in)

Oxford University Press

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Erschienen am 10. Juli 2008

250 Seiten

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Intro
Contents
1. Introduction
Who is so lucky?
Anti-natalism and the pro-natal bias
Outline of the book
A reader's guide
2. Why Coming into Existence Is Always a Harm
Can coming into existence ever be a harm?
Lives worth living and lives not worth living
Lives worth starting and lives worth continuing
Why coming into existence is always a harm
The asymmetry of pleasure and pain
Comparing existing with never existing
Other asymmetries
Against not regretting one's existence
3. How Bad Is Coming into Existence?
Why life's quality is not the difference between its good and its bad
Why self-assessments of one's life's quality are unreliable
Three views about the quality of life, and why life goes badly on all of them
Hedonistic theories
Desire-fulfilment theories
Objective list theories
Concluding comments about the three views
A world of suffering
4. Having Children: The Anti-Natal View
Procreation
No duty to procreate
Is there a duty not to procreate?
Procreative freedom
Understanding the purported right
Grounding the right on autonomy
Grounding the right on futility
Grounding the right on disagreement
Grounding the right on reasonable disagreement
Disability and wrongful life
The non-identity problem and the disability rights objection distinguished
The 'social construction of disability' argument
The 'expressivist' argument
Responding to the disability rights arguments
Wrongful life
Assisted and artificial reproduction
Reproductive ethics and sexual ethics
The tragedy of birth and the morals of gynaecology
Treating future people as mere means
5. Abortion: The 'Pro-Death' View
Four kinds of interests
Which interests are morally considerable?
When does consciousness begin?
Interests in continued existence
The Golden Rule
A 'future like ours'
Conclusions
6. Population and Extinction
Overpopulation
Solving problems in moral theory about population
Professor Parfit's population problems
Why anti-natalism is compatible with Theory X
Contractarianism
Phased extinction
When decreasing population decreases quality of life
Reducing population to zero
Extinction
Two means of extinction
Three concerns about extinction
7. Conclusion
Countering the counter-intuitiveness objection
Responding to the optimist
Death and suicide
Religious views
Misanthropy and philanthropy
Bibliography
Index
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