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Jamie Mayerfeld is a professor of political science and adjunct professor in law, societies, and justice at University of Washington. He is also a faculty associate of the Center for Human Rights and an associate faculty member of the Program on Values. Wikipedia

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Jamie Mayerfeld Quotes

“... there may be a crucial difference between thinking that it would have been better if the world had never come into existence, and thinking that we may take it upon ourselves to destroy the life that already exists.”

Jamie Mayerfeld

"The Moral Asymmetry of Happiness and Suffering", pp. 159-160
Suffering and Moral Responsibility (1999)

Thinking , World , Life

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