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Better Never to Have Been

The Harm of Coming Into Existence

by David Benatar ยท 2006

ISBN: 0191712000 9780191712005

Category: Unavailable

Page count: 237

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.