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forward slash cosmic skeptic. Oh, So well. So welcome back to the cosmic skeptic podcast everybody. Today I am

thrilled to be joined by Professor David Benatar of the University of

Cape Town. He is of course the world's probably most

well-known proponent of anti-natalism which is the view that it is immoral to bring new sentient

creatures into existence that is it is immoral to bring new sentient creatures into existence.

That is, it's immoral to have children.

His views have stood up quite some controversy

for being so seemingly outlandish, but he's also got a sizable minority of

people who are supporting him and who've decided

that what he's saying actually has quite a lot of weight to it.

I think the view is absolutely fascinating and it's most comprehensively spelled out in his 2006 book

Better Never to have Been, a link for which is available in the description.

And I'd recommend reading it because it's a fantastically interesting book and

covers a wide range of different areas in philosophy and you might be surprised at some of the places

that it takes you to such as discussing the ethics of disability and things like this.

Now given the current pandemic I'm going to be filming this episode remotely.

Professor Benesur is very protective of his privacy and so in a first for the

podcast you won't be seeing his face so for the entire podcast if you're watching

this as a video you'll only be seeing my face but remember that if you

prefer to listen to this you can also find the podcast on iTunes and Spotify and other streaming

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