Quotes by : David Benatar

Those who take their own lives, especially when the quality of those lives is much less bad than those....

Although they will miss his presence if he dies, his condition is too burdensome to require his continued....

This is not to offer a general recommendation of suicide. Suicide, like death from other causes, makes....

Fulfilled desires, like pleasures (even of the intrinsic kind), are states of achievement rather than....

Only an unsatisfied preference is bad. In other words, he argues that although it is good to have fulfilled....

It is not the case that one can create new people on the assumption that if they are not pleased to have....

I shall not assess arguments and evidence for competing views about when human extinction will occur.....

Discussions about the ethics of suicide are immediately biased by the verb that customarily attaches....