David Benatar

South African philosopher who developed the most rigorous contemporary defense of anti-natalism — the view that coming into existence is always a serious harm — and has written on misanthropy, animal ethics, and the human predicament.

The asymmetry argument: absent pain is good, absent pleasure is not bad (when there is no one deprived) — this asymmetry entails that non-existence is always better than existence. Every human life contains more suffering than most people admit.