David Benatar Quotes
On my view there is no net benefit to coming into existence and thus coming into existence is never worth its costs.
As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born – and particularly bad luck it is.
Notice, by extension, that in a democracy those committed to non-procreation could never, in the long run, prevail politically against those committed to procreation.
I am under no illusions. My position, no matter how clearly stated, is likely to be misunderstood.