{"id":2174,"date":"2017-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2023\/09\/06\/would-it-be-better-if-human-beings-did-not-exist\/"},"modified":"2017-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"would-it-be-better-if-human-beings-did-not-exist-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2017\/01\/12\/would-it-be-better-if-human-beings-did-not-exist-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Would it be Better if Human Beings did not Exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist?\u201d Schopenhauer<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing brought into existence is not a benefit but always a harm\u201d  Benatar<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur self-removal from this planet would still be a magnificent move\u2026 What do we have to lose?\u201d Ligotti<\/p>\n<p>This project will investigate the claim that human existence is a value.<\/p>\n<p>There tends to be a given assumption that human existence is a good thing. I intend to question the validity of this and investigate whether it has valid justification.<\/p>\n<p>The effects of human existence will be considered from three perspectives to determine whether human existence is worth its costs.<\/p>\n<p>An ethical perspective will be used to evaluate the suffering and harm evoked by and for human beings.<\/p>\n<p>An environmental perspective will contemplate the impact human beings have had on the planet and the detrimental effects caused.<\/p>\n<p>A positive perspective will be adopted to investigate whether human beings deserve respect. It will be questioned if something would be lost without us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucy Talitha Louise Moss, 2017, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,22,123],"tags":[269,21,270],"class_list":["post-2174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-251","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-environmental","tag-ethics","tag-humanity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}