*blocks your optimism*

[Anonymous No.10857252]

Premise 1: Privations are not qualities in themselves
Premise 2: will, being representative of a yet unrealized condition is a privation
Premise 3: It is necessary for there to be will for there to be personal being

-Harm is the privation of Benefit just as Bad is the privation of Good
-A Being can be benefited or harmed on the basis of its personal wants, needs and impulses (whatever those may be) being either fulfilled or exacerbated respectively
-A maximization of benefit is the fulfillment and nullification of the entire record of wants needs and impulses
-A being without will fails to be a personal being (premise 3)
-The maximization of benefit engenders a condition already satisfied in the non-existence of a personal being
-therefore to come into existence is to be harmed necessarily

The chart attached evaluates the possibility of each condition for column A: a world with at least one personal being and column B: a world without any personal beings.

[Anonymous No.10857383]

[Anonymous No.10857442]

>>10857383
wrong. I am not a materialist. None of this is contingent on any particular belief system. And if I believed that personal suffering was limited by the period of material being, I may well not be an antinatalist.

[Anonymous No.10857588]

>>10857442
>I am not a materialist.

[Anonymous No.10858412]

>>10857588
Thanks, I was looking for that image.

[Anonymous No.10858424]

>utilitarianism

[Anonymous No.10858456]

>>10858424
>analytic philosophy is utilitarianism

Is that a self-portrait by chance?