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One of Benatar's arguments trades on something like the asymmetry noted earlier.

Like Overall and Benatar, Bryan Caplan believes that people need to think more rigorously about the decision to have children.

Taken seriously, Benatar's logic leads to what might be called the Conclusive Conclusion.

Benatar's case rests on a critical but, in his view, unappreciated asymmetry.

Benatar's child-rearing advice, if followed, would result in human extinction.

David Benatar, a professor at the University of Cape Town, also turns to philosophy to determine the ideal family size.

If we think that this is a tolerable state of affairs it is because we are, in Benatar's view, victims of the illusion of pollyannaism.

Speaking of girl anthems, this '80s version set the bar high when it came to putting an ex in his place.

For Benatar, this is an outcome devoutly to be wished.

Benatar also argues that human lives are, in general, much less good than we think they are.

Benatar's title refers to the passage in Sophocles' "Oedipus at Colonus" in which the chorus observes: