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13667700 No.13667700 [Reply] [Original]

If life is suffering, intrinsically, as it is, then how is the creation of new human life not an act of unspeakable cruelty? This isn't to say that anyone should die, but that the world at large would be better off if none of us ever existed at all.

If not that, then how is it excusable to add another life to the world, with the global temperature rising, and more and more forests cleared every year? We assume that this century and the one after will be as stable as the past, when climate science tells us the opposite. Even if we stop dumping poison in the sky right this second, the global temperature will still rise by two degrees by the end of the century, with most of the east coast of the US, as well as the south east, under water. In what way is it good to force someone to live in that future, when they don't have to? Once again, not saying that anyone should die, just that continuing to breed when the prognosis is as grim as it is, should be considered an act of breath-taking cruelty.

>> No.13667751

>>13667700

hmmm interesting points, but have you tried having sex?

>> No.13667766

So is this the weekly incel cope belief?

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>>13667700
Modern hedonist that you are, you can see nothing greater in life than a lack of pain. No surprise that you find life a disappointment.

>> No.13668025

>>13667700
Sorry, what's that Mr. Benatar? I can't hear you over all the sex I'm having.

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>>13667700

for most people life is not so bad that people should die, but it's not so good that people should be created.

>> No.13668060

>>13667700
It's not as much about the conditions of life as the fact of existence itself. Suffering and human destiny are the same thing, each is the description of the other. Our brain has all the kinds of psychological mechanisms to make us keep going, religious belief being one of them, but one cold rational look is enough to make you denounce life as a concept.

Birth is like existential rape: Nobody asked you whether you wanted to come into existence or not because there was no one to ask. Though one might as well say that he would rather be born than not, deep down we all know its just a trick to make sure we spread our genes and keep living.

You need to have balls to admit that saying "no" to life is the most humane thing a human is capable of.