# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-benatar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:25:42.480Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-benatar"
name: "David Benatar"
slug: "david-benatar"
description: "David Benatar is a South African philosopher, academic, and author. He is best known for his work in moral philosophy and for advancing the position of antinatalism, the view that coming into existence is a serious harm. He is the author of Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence (2006), in which he argues that procreation is always morally wrong because it imposes harm by bringing sentient beings into existence. Central to this view is his asymmetry argument, which holds that the absence of pain is good even if no one benefits from it, while the absence of pleasure is not bad unless someone is deprived of it."
tagline: "South African philosopher (born 1966)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Educator"
  slug: "educator"
birthDate: "1966"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  190
  category: 23
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump