Debating Procreation Benatar David Professor and Head of Department Department of Philosophy University of Capetown
Debating Procreation Benatar David Professor and Head of Department Department of Philosophy University of Capetown While procreation is ubiquitous, attention to the ethical issues involved in…
Specifikacia Debating Procreation Benatar David Professor and Head of Department Department of Philosophy University of Capetown
Debating Procreation Benatar David Professor and Head of Department Department of Philosophy University of Capetown
While procreation is ubiquitous, attention to the ethical issues involved in creating children is relatively rare. David Benatar argues for the anti-natalist view that it is always wrong to bring new people into existence. In Debating Procreation, David Benatar and David Wasserman take opposing views on this important question.
In addition to these philanthropic arguments, he advances the misanthropic one that because humans are so defective and cause vast amounts of harm, it is wrong to create more of them.David Wasserman defends procreation against the anti-natalist challenge. He argues that coming into existence is always a serious harm and that even if it were not always so, the risk of serious harm is sufficiently great to make procreation wrong. He outlines a variety of moderate pro-natalist positions, which all see procreation as often permissible but never required. After