Dawkins in “Outgrowing God” is preaching evil already, because he is preaching atheism—but he can’t stop there, and he’s not a total fool, so he starts preaching CONSEQUENTIALISM too.
Another reason no one should give young persons this book.
Another reason no one should give young persons this book.
Apparently Dawkins is a negative consequentialist. That is, he is committed to X-MINIMIZATION.
His X is unlikely to be disputed with most moderns: suffering.
He seems not to have realized, unlike philosopher David Benatar, that suffering-minimization logically entails active pursuit of the extinction of all life.
He seems not to have realized, unlike philosopher David Benatar, that suffering-minimization logically entails active pursuit of the extinction of all life.
Still, I’ll give Nietzsche a word on the idea of the abolition of suffering: 
