Re: If life is a benefit...

Immortalist wrote:

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> > On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 18:01:58 GMT, ipse dixit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > If life is a benefit, then it's logically certain that
> > no life [ie never existing at all] is a loss.
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> What is a benifit?

Something that makes an EXISTING entity better off than 
he was before receiving the something.

That is why life _per se_ cannot be a benefit:  there 
was no existing entity prior to being alive.