"On my view there is no net benefit to coming into existence and thus coming into existence is never worth its costs."

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Source : David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.13, Oxford University Press

David Benatar

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“I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.”
“I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education.”
“A grub in filth is dirty, but it changes into a cicada and sips dew in the autumn breeze. Rotting plants have no luster, but they turn into foxfire and glow in the summer moonlight. So we know that purity emerges from impurity, and light is born from darkness.”
“Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.”
“I don't want to say I'd wipe everybody out, because that's cocky. But they wouldn't beat me.”
“If theres something decent going in television, the mediums now are kind of equal. Television has become much higher quality.”
“We donâ€™t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife.”
“I think most cartoonists are solitary, lonely kids who use their work as a way to try to connect with the world. If I had any other skills that were more performative - if I could have been a musician or an actor - I'm sure I would have pursued that instead in order to get that instant feedback and to hear applause.”

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