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Life: Why Bother?

12 mins | Jun 14, 2018

Is human life so awful that we should stop making more of it? Rhys Southan, writing in The New Inquiry, interrogates the antinatalist philosophy of David Benatar, who believes that humanity should stop reproducing once and for all.

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