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Is It Immoral To Birth People Into Existence? - Alex O’Connor & Joe Folley

Chris Williamson

The podcast features a discussion centered on David Benatar's controversial philosophy of antinatalism, specifically his argument that it is immoral to bring people into existence. The core of this view relies on an asymmetry between pleasure and pain: before someone exists, the potential for them n …