/lit/ - Literature

>>16825856
Because we're not pessimists. Your position is premised upon a claim which I can tell, with certainty, is false at least insofar as my subjective experience is concerned. As there are very, very few of you and a very large number of us, the logical conclusion is that the suffering-intense life that you experience is specific to only certain people, and that the great majority of us suffer no such defect.

In other words, the very fact that we disagree with your a-priori assumption disproves it, because it is assumed to be universal.

>Well, SOME people suffer, and suffering is bad so we should do it anyway
I'm not a Utilitarian. I don't care if some people suffer just by existing. Or rather, I am willing to tolerate that. I'd ease it if I could but I'm not going to exterminate the entire human race just because some people suffer, that's Final Fantasy Villain tier reasoning. If I can read a cartoon villain's intentionally incomprehensible and illogical motives and say "Wait, this is slightly BETTER reasoning than my own philosophy,"

I do not care, in fact, if the entire human race except for me experiences existence as suffering. I do not. Therefore, I will not kill myself. That is the beginning and the ending of the reasoning insofar as I am concerned. My existence does not cause you suffering, your existence does. So kill yourself if you're such a bitch, it isn't my problem.