When Should We Argue With Common Sense?

How Seriously Should We Take Smart Arguments For Dumb Conclusions?

An academic philosopher named David Benatar wrote a book arguing that it’s cruel to have children (and compassionate to prevent the human race from continuing). It got a nice write up in the New Yorker. #Goals

Obviously, even if everyone on the planet read the book, it would not be persuasive. But perhaps Benatar is only worried about the marginal case—i…