Baum S D
Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
J Med Ethics. 2008 Dec;34(12):875-6. doi: 10.1136/jme.2007.023986.
A recent exchange on Benatar's book Better never to have been between Doyal and Benatar discusses Benatar's bold claim that people should not be brought into existence. Here, I expand the discussion of original position that the exchange focused on. I also discuss the asymmetries, between benefit and harm and between existence and non-existence, upon which Benatar's bold claim rests. In both discussions, I show how Benatar's bold claim can be rejected.
最近，多亚尔和贝纳塔尔就贝纳塔尔的著作《从未出生更好》展开了交流，讨论了贝纳塔尔提出的那个大胆观点，即人们不应被带到世上。在此，我扩展了交流所聚焦的原初状态的讨论。我还探讨了贝纳塔尔这一大胆观点所基于的利益与伤害之间以及存在与不存在之间的不对称性。在这两个讨论中，我都说明了贝纳塔尔的大胆观点是如何被驳斥的。
