Kids? Just say no

You don’t have to dislike children to see the harms done by having them. There is a moral case against procreation.

Aeon Magazine
Aeon Magazine
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14 min readOct 30, 2017

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By David Benatar

In 2006, I published a book called Better Never to Have Been. I argued that coming into existence is always a serious harm. People should never, under any circumstance, procreate — a position called…

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