What asymmetry did Lucretius think raised a problem for the notion that death is bad?
A) Our different attitudes toward prenatal and posthumous nonexistence
B) Our different attitudes toward experiencing something bad and not experiencing it
C) Our different attitudes toward someone who dies young and someone who dies at a normal age
D) Our different attitudes toward whether death is a harm or not

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Lucretius pointed out the asymmetry in how we view the time before we were born (prenatal nonexistence) and the time after we die (posthumous nonexistence), questioning why we typically don't consider prenatal nonexistence bad but often think of death as bad. This raises a problem for the notion that death is inherently bad.

What Asymmetry Did Lucretius Think Raised a Problem for the Notion