There are books that one should never give to depressed friends. David Benatar’s “The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions” is one. Although Mr. Benatar doesn’t want to be one ...

David Benatar is probably the most important philosophical pessimist active today. He has presented many original and challenging arguments for life's badness. In this and some ensuing posts, I’ll ...

The philosopher David Benatar is wrong. The answer to the greatest evils is probably not to bring about the end of the world deliberately. In recent weeks, as the national debate over life itself has ...

Based on: Cutting to the Core: Exploring the Ethics of Contested Surgeries Edited by David Benatar. 236 pp. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. $75 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). 0-7425-5000-1(cloth); 0 ...