title: Better to exist: a reply to Benatar.
abstract: A recent exchange on Benatar's book Better never to have been between Doyal and Benatar discusses Benatar's bold claim that people should not be brought into existence. Here, I expand the discussion of original position that the exchange focused on. I also discuss the asymmetries, between benefit and harm and between existence and non-existence, upon which Benatar's bold claim rests. In both discussions, I show how Benatar's bold claim can be rejected.
authors.affiliation: Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. sbaum@psu.edu
authors.forename: S D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Baum
mesh_terms: D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D043762:Reproductive Behavior / Q000941:ethics*; D026712:Value of Life