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Coming Into Existence: The Good, The Bad, and The Indifferent

David Benatar, Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence. Clarendon Press, 2006. 237 pp

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Kaposy, C. Coming Into Existence: The Good, The Bad, and The Indifferent. Hum Stud 32, 101–108 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-009-9106-4

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