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

David Benatar

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Drawing on relevant psychological literature, the author shows that there are a number of well-documented features of human psychology that explain why people systematically overestimate the quality of their lives and why they are thus resistant to the suggestion that they were seriously harmed by being brought into existence.

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