Better never to have been : the harm of coming into existence /
Drawing on relevant psychological literature, the author shows that there are a number of well-documented features of human psychology that explain why people systematically overestimate the quality of their lives and why they are thus resistant to the suggestion that they were seriously harmed by b...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Drawing on relevant psychological literature, the author shows that there are a number of well-documented features of human psychology that explain why people systematically overestimate the quality of their lives and why they are thus resistant to the suggestion that they were seriously harmed by being brought into existence. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 237 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-233) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191516313 0191516317 0199296421 9780199296422 9780191712005 0191712000 9781429471145 142947114X 1280756322 9781280756320 9786610756322 6610756325 |