/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18696115]

>It is unethical to put people in a situation where the only escape is suicide and all of the pain, fear, guilt of leaving others behind, and more that comes with it. Not to mention the pain that precedes it that pushes people to this point in the first place. Also, many people are miserable but don’t commit suicide because they are afraid they will survive, fear the pain, don’t want to hurt others, social stigma, the survival instinct, etc. They never should have been put into this situation in the first place.

>Additionally, the idea that no more new people should be brought into existence does not necessarily imply by itself that people who have already been forced to exist should stop existing. A person who is currently alive may be happy with their life and want to continue living. However, it is still unethical to create someone else who might not feel the same way. Since there is no way to know how they will feel and no way to receive consent to take the risk, it is not morally justified to reproduce.

>Furthermore, people who are born may suffer but still be concerned about how their friends or family will react to a suicide. So even if they are miserable, they will not commit suicide and continue suffering for the sake of others. This does not mean they enjoy life or think it is worth the pain; they simply do not want to hurt others by committing suicide.

[Anonymous No.18696137]

Pain, fear, guilt of leaving others behind, all of that wanes in time

[Anonymous No.18696140]

>>18696115
Are these just assertions, or does he actually present an argument for them? He seems to just be presupposing that suffering is bad.

[Anonymous No.18696155]

>>18696140

well, it is. if it isn't then subject yourself to suffering

[Anonymous No.18696158]

>>18696115
>It is unethical
start with the greeks

[Anonymous No.18696162]

>suffering isn't bad

then cut your own arms off and become homeless

if you sincerely believe this

[Anonymous No.18696164]

>>18696115
Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd9OhYroLN0

[Anonymous No.18696167]

>>18696164
>yeah, my parents are divorced, and they're NOT getting back together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trinU3VD1Zo

[Anonymous No.18696171]

>>18696162
Lit can't deal with that, just cope.

[Anonymous No.18696180]

[Anonymous No.18696208]

>>18696155
>then subject yourself to suffering
Suffering not being bad doesn't imply that it's good.

[Anonymous No.18696213]

(((David Benatar)))

[Anonymous No.18696222]

>>18696115
>It is unethical
boo hoo what a bitch
into the trash it goes

[Anonymous No.18696244]

>>18696222
>>18696213
>>18696162
Cope

[Anonymous No.18696248]

>suffering isn't bad
I think I just debunked him.

[Anonymous No.18696265]

>It's unethical to do anything that may result in someone else feeling bad at some point.

[Anonymous No.18696277]

>>18696162
Watch me not do that. Watch me sincerely believe it then not do that anyway. Do something about it. Little boy. Little baby bitch boy. Gonna cry? Gonna cry little bitch boy? Yeah you are.

[Anonymous No.18696310]

>>18696244
seethe

[Anonymous No.18696330]

>>18696115

[Anonymous No.18696430]

>>18696265
>create life because you feel like it
>lol cheer up buddy
>stop being selfish!

[Anonymous No.18696446]

>>18696248
Go stab your balls and come back. I want to see your view on suffering after.

[Anonymous No.18696480]

>>18696330
Cope

[Anonymous No.18696494]

>>18696162
What? You're an idiot

[Anonymous No.18696519]

>>18696265
It's unethical to do things to other people who are unable to consent to your actions purely for your own benefit. It's impossible to defend conception and not rape without employing woman logic.

[Anonymous No.18696536]

>>18696162
>if you don't personally want to do something that means it's bad

is this the level we are on now? anon if everything just comes down to what you personally feel about something then what is left to talk about? you do your thing and i'll do mine.

[Anonymous No.18698034]

>>18696536
Smarmy faggot

[Anonymous No.18698044]

>>18696115
I agree with anti-natalism, but only for whites.

[Anonymous No.18698053]

>>18696115
have sex
incel

[Anonymous No.18698069]

>>18696162
How many people actually have their arms cut off and are forced to live homeless? I think you're making a mountain out of a mole hill.

[Anonymous No.18698082]

by having kids you force them:

to be asian, african, european, etc without their consent(they don't choose your race)
these are why i don't have children. i don't impose these on a person. i am not narcissistic enough to think a kid would like my likeness and my genes

to be autistic, schizophrenic etc without their consent

to have a certain iq without their consent(if you are born with a 70 iq you are fucked)

to be born with a certain sexuality(homosexuality, pedophilia, etc) or gender dysphoria etc

to be born ugly

to be born poor(if you are born poor and also have a 90 iq you are most likely not gonna be able to raise yourself out of poverty)

[Anonymous No.18698093]

by having kids you force them:

to be asian, african, european, etc without their consent(they don't choose your race)

to be autistic, schizophrenic etc without their consent

to have a certain iq without their consent(if you are born with a 70 iq you are fucked)

to be born with a certain sexuality(homosexuality, pedophilia, etc) or gender dysphoria etc

to be born ugly

to be born poor(if you are born poor and also have a 90 iq you are most likely not gonna be able to raise yourself out of poverty)

these are why i don't have children. i don't impose these on a person. i am not narcissistic enough to think a kid would like my likeness and my genes

[Anonymous No.18698099]

>>18698044

it's mostly whites who subscribe to antinatalism as a philosophy

i think pro-blacks would be the most opposed to antinatalism

[Anonymous No.18698108]

>>18696536

we judge what is bad by the reaction we have to it. we have a negative reaction to suffering therefore it's bad
that's how we know suffering is bad . no one wants to suffer

[Anonymous No.18698110]

>>18698099
>it's mostly whites who subscribe to antinatalism as a philosophy
To be blunt, no other race is dumb enough to fall for it

[Anonymous No.18698113]

>>18698110

i would argue that whites and asians are only ones smart enough to fall for it

blacks and hispanics and other racial groups are too dumb to fall it

[Anonymous No.18698116]

>>18698113
>anti-natalists are smart
The absolute state limpwrists

[Anonymous No.18698119]

>>18698113
If these races have become so "smart" that it is an evolutionary hindrance, perhaps they are better off dumbing down a bit. Hell, anti-natalism may be nature's way of accomplishing that.

[Anonymous No.18698120]

>>18698116

breeders tend to be the dumbest people on the planet

that's why i think the average iq of america will be 90 in the future

[Anonymous No.18698127]

>>18698120
>breeders
Unlike yours truly, gigabrain extraordinaire, I presume?

[Anonymous No.18698131]

>>18698127

i am not smart

[Anonymous No.18698135]

>>18698131
So you do actually intend on furthering your lineage?

[Anonymous No.18698139]

>>18698135

nope
why do people care about continuing their lineage? who cares!

[Anonymous No.18698149]

>>18698139
Are you one of those "I know that I know nothing" types? I'm just curious

[Anonymous No.18698156]

pretending suffering isn't bad to justify breeding and to affirm is cope

[Anonymous No.18698160]

>>18698139
I care. My ancestors didn't claw themselves out of the mud and commit unspeakable acts of terror to gain a little comfort fo little old me, just so I would piss in their face and call them retards for trying.

[Anonymous No.18698165]

>>18698156

[Anonymous No.18698168]

>>18698156
Eating is cope for feeling hungry innit

[Anonymous No.18698178]

>>18698160

okay alex jones

https://youtu.be/tk4-xeAvWqs?t=325

[Anonymous No.18698191]

>>18698178
He's entirely right. A galactic human empire is what mankind ought to strive for, because we really are just that cool.

[Anonymous No.18698857]

>>18698191
>Thinking that will be human left

Kek, midwits don't even follow the news ,

[Anonymous No.18698868]

>>18698093
Truly enlightened answer here.

[Anonymous No.18698901]

>>18698108
We have a negative reaction to homosexuality therefore it's bad. Hm, this is actually making sense.

[Anonymous No.18698924]

>>18696155
I have watched this webm at least 10 times, each time focusing only on one of the persons involved

[Anonymous No.18698973]

>>18696155
I subject myself to suffering everyday by abstaining from eating and sitting alone in my room for days on end.

[Anonymous No.18698983]

>suffering is unarguably bad
>life is suffering
>but I wont end my suffering because killing myself is suffering
>or causes suffering to others
>but not having children will not cause suffering to those that want children
>no people who suffer because they cant get children dont exist
>yes I make sense are you nut suffering?

[Anonymous No.18699048]

>>18696155
Most people do subject themselves to suffering. Work, exercise, proper diet, socializing, horror/sad fiction, beauty (like plucking hairs), strategy/puzzle/platform games, helping the poor, education, challenges (like eating the hottest peppers), camping, sex (like BDSM), etc. You don't do any of these things?

[Anonymous No.18699054]

>>18698983
Midwit take right here.

[Anonymous No.18699137]

>>18696115
Everything would be in its place without technology
No overpopulation
Kids wouldn't be insane
People wouldn't feel suicidal
Even people who went to war and suffered greatly in the past would overall enjoy life and be glad to live
We live in the comfort of concrete prisons, none of this is natural and only a mad, psychotic individual can ever adapt

[Anonymous No.18699172]

If suffering outweighs pleasure, then you shouldn't try to minimize suffering because that would take effort (suffering). There's suffering in effort. Trying to minimize suffering with effort is thus unethical. Benatar's book is unethical because it takes effort to read it.
>you shouldn't read, educate yourself, challenge yourself, do anything difficult, etc. as these are also unethical because effort
>you should only eat mushy food because the effort of chewing outweighs taste

[Anonymous No.18699197]

>>18699137
>People didn't suffer before the industrial revolution

[Anonymous No.18699204]

>>18696115
Most people don't commit suicide or feel the need to so it is an invalid argument for the majority of people.

[Anonymous No.18699328]

>>18699197
>>18699204
I did not say that people did not suffer in the past, nor that everyone wants to commit suicide. But an increasing amount of people need to take mind-altering drugs to stop feeling inherently unhappy about their lives, and that percentage is increasing every year. It's obvious that the industrial lifestyle is taking a massive toll on people, something they're not wired for.
Take children. Many people in the urban-industrial context want to be "childfree" because modern children are in fact fucking horrid. They are disgusting creatures who live tantrum to tantrum, they're morbidly obsessed with consumer products, they're hedonistic, undisciplined, sociopathic, psychotic, sadistic, they are incapable of patience, curiosity, sharing, following directives. They cannot be trusted at any point until they reach adolescence and even then they lack most of the qualities of an adult, which they will have to crash course through when they're like 22.
Whereas children of rural families are relaxed, obedient, curious, more attentive and generally more manageable and pleasant to be around. While parent responsibility can mitigate how much of a brat they'll raise, much of the neurotic behavioral patterns of modern kids are unavoidable (lots of work pressure on parents means that you cannot have a mother raising the kids hands-on all the time, peer pressure from other kids who live this lifestyle means that pulling them out of context will get them ostracized and alienated, etc.)
People in the past DID suffer but they belonged to a more natural life cycle. It was extremely rare that a healthy person without major issues would feel suicidal, just like that. Today it's becoming the norm for people who are living a tiny fraction of the discomfort and issues that were normal in the past.

[Anonymous No.18699412]

>>18699328
Bro it is not "normal" to be suicidal what are you on about

[Anonymous No.18699472]

>>18696519
>purely for your own benefit
but reproducing benefits society?
Captcha: GAYSW

[Anonymous No.18699494]

>>18699472
Reproducing does God's will and brings you closer to saintliness.

[Anonymous No.18699518]

>>18699412
>According to a report released by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), the rate of antidepressant use in this country among teens and adults (people ages 12 and older) increased by almost 400% between 1988–1994 and 2005–2008.
>Suicide rates in the United States have risen nearly 30% since 1999, and mental health conditions are one of several factors contributing to suicide. Examining state-level trends in suicide and the multiple circumstances contributing to it can inform comprehensive state suicide prevention planning.
Yeah bro everything's fine

[Anonymous No.18699547]

>>18696115
Nothing is unethical

[Anonymous No.18699576]

>>18699518
Search 'social contagion'.

People just attach themselves to new social fads to feel a part of something. Give someone a name for something and they'll believe they have it. People have always been miserable, it's just now they think there's a way out. Wrongly, as it turns out.

[Anonymous No.18699598]

>>18699576
>people take brain meds to be part of a trend
I dunno man what you said is very true regarding many things and people are acting more retarded than ever, but I doubt that even the most idiotic zoomer would take brain pills just to LARP. Granted, all data is based on prescriptions since you can't track if people stick to their therapy, but I'm not going to believe that the majority of these cases involve people who don't take their meds. It's much simpler to believe that people have been feeling more inherently unhappy.

[Anonymous No.18699694]

>>18698857
The news are made for midwits

[Anonymous No.18699917]

>>18699598
>I doubt people would take pills to LARP
Anon, people kill themselves so as to feel part of a 'group'. People are fucking idiots, and they'll do anything to fit in with others.

[Anonymous No.18699931]

>dude...life kinda just sucks....damn...

[Anonymous No.18699936]

>>18696115
Benetar is a meme and only makes antinatalism look bad to anyone who is not a brainlet.
I hate him so god dame much that even sarah perry has a much betetr book despite all it's flaws.

[Anonymous No.18699947]

>>18699931
>damn, I... don't have any argument... just sucks...

[Anonymous No.18699961]

Anyone who can be convinced by antinatalist arguments should definitely be removed from the gene pool, so it all works out.

[Anonymous No.18699968]

>>18699936
Based

[Anonymous No.18699993]

I like humanity so much I think it shouldnt exist

[Anonymous No.18700012]

>>18696115
Antinatalism is bunk.

[Anonymous No.18700066]

>>18699968
It was a good read and it did not pretend to be so dame obnoxiously sure of itself in ways Memetar does. Sure she was lacking when it comes to understanding some of the social issues, mental health , studies she used but it was a good read.

have you read Julio Cabera? He wrote a good critique of benetar.
I just really dislike how benetar decided to take a hard approach at his philosophy (there was an attempt) sacrificing the book being as enjoyable as lets say Perry's yet he did not argue against himself or try to actually prove his own position against critique even a laymen would make.
he relied so hard on his little square graph and wrote the book around it so pitiful.

I was working on text of my own that criituqed current antinatalist works whilst also exploring the folly of some to try make it a political movement and stopped but may well pick it up again after seeing benetar being posted by these nu-atheists (which is what antinatalism has become)

[Anonymous No.18700117]

>>18696115
Since he's obviously an atheist, how does he justify his gibberish about morals and ethics? What's his final reason to believe in them? Why even concern himself with such spooks?
>>18696155
>>18696162
If there is no God, no Good and Evil, why would my suffering and other peoples suffering have anything to do with each other? To my ego, to my personal experience in this world, they are as different as night and day. What's it to me that someone else expresses pain to me, if it pleases me why not allow him to suffer? After I die for all I know all existence will cease and if it doesn't that's not really my problem, presuming there is no soul. My own consciousness is the only one I'll ever experience and thus the pain it feels is the only kind that can motivate action. The ego can only weigh one course of action against another by how it impacts its own wellbeing, now or in the future.
If you think an act would strictly benefit you materialistically but you also expect that you'll be unable to handle the remorse which the remainder of your spook conscience will set upon you, then abstaining from that act would be a perfectly reasonable decision from a totally hedonistic point of view. No ethics involved. Everything can thus become a personal "ethical" commandmend to the atheist, but nothing can ever be universal.

[Anonymous No.18700420]

>>18698034
cope

[Anonymous No.18700435]

>>18698108
ok but ops paragraph is supposed to be the basis for a philosophy that cant be justified by someones personal feelings. and plenty of people want to suffer because they think it builds character or allows them to bear up to life, or they are just indifferent and accepting of it.

[Anonymous No.18700500]

>>18696115
Preemptively btfo by Spinoza and Nietzsche. “Suffering” and “pleasure” don’t even have their own ontological basis, they’re purely relative constructs made by relating different experiences to one another and deciding which one is better or worse. Suffering cannot exist without pleasure so it’s literally an affirmation that pleasure can be felt at all.

[Anonymous No.18700572]

>>18700500
Pretty sure pain is its own dimension on a neural level. Seems like you could have a being whose nociceptors were firing continually, resulting in constant pain and suffering from the moment it existed, without really knowing about pleasure.

Though I agree that suffering can be interpreted as relative. If you've experienced some serious shit then minor pains become easier to deal with.

[Anonymous No.18700625]

yeah but if that's the case then what's the point of doing anything at all? what good comes out of dwelling on this type of thought process?

also what about people who don't read or care about learning? if intelligent people stop reproducing wouldn't that lead to a much stupider population in the future?

[Anonymous No.18700663]

Unsurprisingly, /lit/ has the worst discussions on antinatalism on the internet, by far.

Even r/antinatalism has better quality discussion than this.

[Anonymous No.18700687]

>>18698901

Yes.

[Anonymous No.18700693]

>>18696140

Explain how suffering is not bad.

[Anonymous No.18700701]

>>18696265

Absolutely.

[Anonymous No.18700719]

>>18700663
Because antinatalism is just a proxy war over tradfaggotry like everything else on this shitty site

[Anonymous No.18700762]

>>18700701
This post upsets me :(

[Anonymous No.18700771]

Note the scandalous hypocrisy of the men of the world: after begrudgingly conceding that life IS nothing but suffering they try claiming that they never affirmed life itself in the first place, that their allegiance was to "potential" all along, i.e. to what life IS NOT, readily admitting that it is THEM that disregard life and take refuge in idiosyncratic "philosophizing". Utterly subhuman.

[Anonymous No.18700782]

Now you listen. The vast majority of people doesn't commit suicide. Most people are okay with life. Some might even enjoy it. I've certainly done it once or twice. The chance of your kid becoming one of those normal everyday people is pretty damn high. And despite all the bad things about living that you so eloquently perused, none of that shit will stick to your kid. Life - that's a tough hand to play, you and me know that, but by God, the kid will make it - heck, even enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.18700795]

>>18700762

It should.

[Anonymous No.18700830]

>>18700719
The vast majority of people here arguing against antinatalism are literal virgins who live in a dysphoric 2D world of made in Japan anime girls who are shy virgins but also whores who do the ahegao thing when they have premarital sex and go "you will become the next hokage senpai" while they climax. I can't even imagine what they think having kids is like, like the anime woman just goes DING and a 2.5D 10 year old appears, he is literate and obedient and he wants to play baseball (his father doesn't like or play baseball but it doesn't matter) btw he's homeschooled and reads the Bible (unlike his father)
then they go shoot mexicans together at the border because that's what Jesus would do
then this family of 3 with no relatives or anyone else because anon hates his father and mother and the anime girl is a drawing (lol) all celebrate this hunt happily over a thanksgiving turkey, whom anon cuts skillfully with his original Japanese Katana with Matthew 10:34 inscribed on it

[Anonymous No.18700857]

>>18696155
I don't want to.

My wants aren't objective truths.

[Anonymous No.18700873]

>>18696115
That's kind of why I completely forgive and don't harbor ill feelings to a friend that killed himself. Fact is some of us are born into unfavorable circumstances and it can be such a disgustingly difficult fight to put up on the regular.

[Anonymous No.18700890]

Someone should find that Benatar fella and kill him.

[Anonymous No.18700894]

>>18700830
This. I had a sexual 'dry spell' for a long time and got caught up in ideals of wanting kids but then when I broke it last week and finally coomed I instantly remembered how terrified I am of impregnating a girl. It really is just a fantasy, having kids in the current world is an unspeakly horrible thing and you'd have to be completely delusional to noy get that

[Anonymous No.18700895]

>>18696446
Consider the pain of remembering the people who were dear to you and have been lost. Would you rather not remember? Would you rather not care about these people?

Consider the joy a pedophile might get from subjecting a child to a traumatizing experience. Would you like to experience that joy? Would you rather not feel disgust at that?

Some instances of suffering we cling to, others we turn away. As with joy. Because of what we want to be or not to be, rather than because of how it would feel.

[Anonymous No.18700907]

>>18700894
Antinatalists on 4chan basically just want someone else to make kids for them. And they should be happy, since Habib and Tyrone are doing exactly that :^)

[Anonymous No.18700914]

>>18700907
I meant anti-antinatalists
whoops! all these antis

[Anonymous No.18700915]

>>18700830
It's the literal opposite. Antinatalists are the ones about how disgusting 3d women are in a pathetic attempt to cope with all their failures.

[Anonymous No.18700939]

>>18700915
vast majority of antinatalists are urbanite, career oriented people who want to enjoy as much casual sex as possible, you are coping like crazy
why would you even seethe so much if someone doesn't want to have kids? just make more yourself if you're not autistic
then every single time someone makes an argument for circumstantial reasons to be antinatalist you faggots always, always ignore it
you're all a bunch of stupid LARPers

[Anonymous No.18700953]

>>18698983
retarded cope, I can tell you just started typing out of anger and hoped it would make sense by the end

[Anonymous No.18700964]

>>18696519
It's unethical for you to keep posting because I didn't give you my consent to make me feel bad by subjecting me to bad arguments. Are you going to stop posting forever now?

[Anonymous No.18700977]

>>18700939
You have made the fundamental error of thinking that the average person is any kind of an 'ist', normal people basically just follow their emotions and practical factors of convenience, and even the few who play around with these abstract concepts are just using them to justify what they already are doing for unrelated reasons. Very few people are wrapped up in the abstract bullshit that you think everyone wrestles with every time they make a decision.

[Anonymous No.18700994]

>>18700939
Whos seething? Only people I see seethe are the antinatalists who start screeching and telling me to kill myself when I talk about fatherly relationships or some shit. I have my whole life ahead of me and want to have at least one kid at some point. But for arguments sake you guys don't realize that it's up to the elders to shape the future of society by helping guide and mold the young properly. That's where my dumbass parents and so many others flopped, and that's completely changeable. A better future can be built.

[Anonymous No.18701006]

>>18696162
That's a fallacy of equivocation

[Anonymous No.18701008]

>>18696115
>omg pain :(
Name a more rebbit ideology than this

[Anonymous No.18701016]

>>18700994
Literally why do you think it is changeable? Parents are always bad, it's just a matter of how. Even if I succeed in being less of a loud and sensitive baby like my boomer dad, I'm sure my lack of authority and self-importance will cause other issues.

[Anonymous No.18701034]

>>18701016
You have to work on patience, confidence, sense of security and whatever else. Point is to be a strong parental figure by the time you have kids. Problem is too many people either knock some bitch up resulting in having a kid far before they should, before they make enough money, before they're mature enough, and flat-out some crazier types should never have kids to begin with. I completely agree as far as that. I don't think everyone should have kids it's not for everyone and it's no doubt the biggest responsibility you could possibly undertake in life. But I do think plenty of people grow up in loving, supportive families as well. Who actually understand and help one another.

[Anonymous No.18701035]

>atheist
>objective moral claims
Because of my religious faith I can never be manipulated into following these retarded DEMONIC trends like antinatalism and veganism that are being PUSHED BY THE HIGHER-UPS! You guys are so psy-opped it’s insane

[Anonymous No.18701045]

>>18700977
>You have made the fundamental error of thinking that the average person is any kind of an 'ist'
of course I didn't mean antinatalist in the sense that they're militant, they just don't wanna have kids
there are tons of people who think having kids is a chore and nothing else
the LARP is further evidenced by the fact that nobody on this site ever answers to this like
>You're wrong I got married and I have my 2nd kid on the way
they always reply like >>18700994
>I have my whole life ahead of me and want to have at least one kid at some point.
Which I just don't understand, why does everyone seethe and LARP so much all the time? it's also true that there are antinatalists who are just coping because they don't get pussy and know they'll have get married.
antinatalists, anti-antinatalists, they all look like LARPers to me
and as I mentioned, everyone's too caught up in the LARP to discuss the argument of people who say "I would like to have kids but the situation looks to grim to do it responsibly"

[Anonymous No.18701064]

>>18696115
>It is unethical to put people in a situation where the only escape is suicide and all of the pain, fear, guilt of leaving others behind, and more that comes with it.
It’s also impossible, since even without suicide any human will eventually die of old age if nothing else

[Anonymous No.18701069]

>>18701045
Whoah some people plan out their lives with structured goals! And holy shit you're telling me everyone here isn't finished with their life yet? Must be larping!

[Anonymous No.18701083]

>>18701034
You're missing some really basic points here
>you have never had a kid, this is all speculation
>even if you had a kid, you couldn't know what was really going on with them (my parents are pretty much unaware of how much they've fucked me up deep down)
>a major idea that often goes with anti-natalism and related concepts is that there is literally only suffering, "pleasure" is just a reduction in the absolute amount of suffering, it's still 100%
>any intelligent analysis of the current state of the world will tell you that it'll be absurdly different by the time your kids grow up, probably for the worse but even if it's for the better, all of your values will be obsolete and you won't have any idea how to handle them

[Anonymous No.18701092]

>>18701069
you are pathetic

[Anonymous No.18701095]

>>18701069
Anon I normally wouldn't make assumptions but we're on 4chan and everyone gets unnaturally on edge about this which usually means the subject struck a nerve

[Anonymous No.18701122]

>>18701083
First point, fair. I don't have a kid and the experience isn't completely predictable.
>my parents are pretty much unaware of how much they've fucked me up deep down)
Has it ever occurred to you that you can improve upon the mistakes your parents made? The point is to surpass your father and previous generations. You see their failures and strive to become something better.
>blah blah world change
The more it changes, the more it stays the same. I don't believe you need to meticulously do everything for a growing child, most values are timeless and universal for instance.
>>18701092
Not an argument
>>18701095
It reminds me of the type of philosophy that shooters have. It reminds me of Adam Lanza who thought similarly about life.

[Anonymous No.18701130]

>>18701064
speak english, retard

[Anonymous No.18701150]

>>18701122
Are you one of these literal autists who doesn't understand what a major and irreversible shift the corona bullshit caused humanity? We will never go back to even the fake version of a 'healthy society' we had a few years ago, the current world order is doomed and life will only begin again after it falls. This would be like trying to have a kid in Rome in 452 AD, except it's also cringey.

[Anonymous No.18701162]

I can't take these threads anymore. Why do you people fall for Angloid life denying philosophy? Why do you even engage with such rubbish?

[Anonymous No.18701165]

>>18701150
You would find any reason to live in fear

[Anonymous No.18701178]

>>18701150
>mfw someone says "I can't wait till we won't have to use these masks anymore and this will all be over!"

[Anonymous No.18701185]

Doesn't deviation from normative activity (participation in reproduction) negatively valence nonconforming actions? By abstaining, you increase net-negative self-appraisal, inducing stress/depressive symptoms. How does Benatar reconcile this with his proposed asymmetry? I don't understand the "ethical" argument being made by his devotees in this thread - for example, by breathing you're depleting resources (global deoxygenation and consequent effects on taxa) that future stock can't consent to (even though they shouldn't exist implicitly as a precondition for the argument). Can someone explain?

[Anonymous No.18701203]

>>18701165
Honestly you're just a dumb coward who refuses to think about uncomfortable situations. You'll probably grow out of it in a few years but you'll be way behind.

[Anonymous No.18701243]

>>18701203
The only coward here is you. It's life, everyone has to think about uncomfortable situations, and deal with uncertainty. You think you're so fucking special? You're the only one who deals with anything? You need to touch grass. I see it all, I've been through life too, and at least I have the balls to keep living. You're the one going on about how the world is doomed, we're doomed, and wanting to have children is so stupid bro! Yet I'm the coward? Not only are you a coward, you're a hypocrite, and you're delusional too. By all means walk your own path but coming on here and trying to goad people with your depressing defeatism and victim mentality is sad.

[Anonymous No.18701260]

>>18701130
There is no situation where suicide is the only escape

[Anonymous No.18701268]

>>18701243
>>18701203
I doubt that anyone's opinion on the future doe anything about fear. We're all living in fear, because the future will be shit. There's no objective way to deal with it, one can be bitter and prepared for the worst or one can be optimistic and try to ride that. In the end we're all just coping. there's no inherent merit in pushing through disregarding facts and there's no inherent shame in admitting that things will be shit.

[Anonymous No.18701296]

>>18701178
The truth is that we already basically had this situation, it was just voluntary instead of forced. Corona just made the problem impossible to ignore (unless you are a pathetic retard like that other guy here).

[Anonymous No.18701324]

>>18701243
it's pathetic how triggered you get over this, you'd have a better time if you just switched back to watching sitcoms on netflix to pretend you don't see how hopeless the current world order is, be sure to order some grubhub while you're at it.

[Anonymous No.18701332]

>>18701260
Living your life to its natural end *is* the situation we are talking about, retard.

[Anonymous No.18701521]

bumpy

[Anonymous No.18701539]

>>18696115
>It is unethical
not my problem

[Anonymous No.18701555]

Would antinatalist niggas be pro matrix if it made you never feel a bad thing again?

[Anonymous No.18701608]

>>18701555
The real question is when are the Wachowski brothers going to credit Sophia Stewart (POC) for her role in crafting The Matrix as a privilege allegory? She wrote The Matrix, as a black woman, they need to bend the knee.

[Anonymous No.18701631]

>>18701555

No, since it would be a concession to the Demiurge.

[Anonymous No.18701656]

>Benatar is the son of (((Solomon))) Benatar, a global-health expert who founded the Bioethics Centre at the University of Cape Town. Not much is known about Benatar's personal life as he deliberately guards his privacy.

A jew telling impressionable gentile undergrads to self-sterilize.

Shocker.

[Anonymous No.18701728]

>>18698093
more people should think like you

[Anonymous No.18701778]

Exercising the biological functions of one's human body will never be unethical. Doing so in a world that has a disproportionate degree of suffering is. Humans are complex machines that are resistant to most suffering like exposure to the elements, hunger and emotional trauma. People who bitch about it regardless, in my wholly personal and unscientific opinion, should be doxxed, put on a list online and tracked down for crowdfunded assassinations.

I wish 4chan crowdfunded assassinations of prominent antinatalists. They're subhuman, rats trying to convince the lion not to breed.

[Anonymous No.18701781]

you should only procreate if you're rich and/or beautiful.

[Anonymous No.18701786]

>>18696162
Gravity isn't bad, but that doesn't mean I'll jump off a cliff, retard.

[Anonymous No.18701788]

>>18698924
based, this is the way to properly watch webms

[Anonymous No.18701795]

>>18701008
I can't

[Anonymous No.18701803]

>>18701778
Cool it with the anti-Semitism

[Anonymous No.18701848]

>>18701786
>Gravity isn't bad

Why not?

[Anonymous No.18701859]

>>18701848
It allows for planets and atmospheres and life and webs of significance even if it's hard (but not impossible) to escape from and easy to bear when just lying down like how being born/thrown is easy to bear by just eating bread and drinking water and fun when swimming.

[hungryman !!5BI0oSV9uvS No.18701889]

>>18696155
Most people will object to your statement because they don’t understand philosophical arguments and they think they can proceed by denying any premise. They don’t understand that most philosophical debates wouldn’t actually proceed with someone saying “prove suffering is bad,” because it is a gateway to absurd thinking and the argument becomes bogged down in something uninteresting like base semantics. They don’t understand that it’s possible for a philosophical argument to halt because it has become to absurd or ridiculous, as is the case with proving or not proving “suffering is undesirable.”

[Anonymous No.18701899]

>>18701859
>It allows for planets and atmospheres and life and webs of significance

Why would any of these require gravity?

[Anonymous No.18701905]

>>18696115
why

[Anonymous No.18701925]

>>18701899
https://youtu.be/THTLAAz8lsY

[Anonymous No.18701934]

>>18701899
without gravity, no complex body could be held together

[Anonymous No.18701938]

>>18701889
Benatar's "suffering" isn't a sufficient enough axiom to premise the argument, notwithstanding the asymmetry, which is why it's so easily dismissed. His modified utilitarianism is something his own colleagues contested.

[Anonymous No.18701942]

>>18701934

How do you know this?

[Anonymous No.18701946]

>>18701889
What gave you the impression that these people want a good debate?

[Anonymous No.18701953]

>>18701942
physics

[Anonymous No.18701965]

>>18696213
What the fuck, I just found out he is unironically Jewish.

[Anonymous No.18701967]

>>18701953

How do you know that "physics" is true?

[Anonymous No.18701990]

>>18701967
Babby's first metaphysical questions

[Anonymous No.18701991]

>>18696162
The seethe that this has generated lmao. /lit/ knows that they’re larping and they hate being exposed.

[Anonymous No.18701993]

>>18701990

?

[Anonymous No.18702000]

It's also unethical and hypocritical for an anti natalist to not kill themselves. Be the change you want to see. Anti-natalists are total idiots. A fundamentally misguided, foolish, bitter and dare I say evil and hate-filled mind with nothing to contribute except misery, negativity and an assortment of other unpleasantries nobody wants or asked for.

[Anonymous No.18702004]

>>18701993
realist epistemology, but we're getting out of the scope of the question

[Anonymous No.18702013]

>>18702004
>realist epistemology

Meaning...?

[Anonymous No.18702018]

>>18702013
Obscurantism

[Anonymous No.18702041]

>>18702013
there is a real world outside of me and i observe it, and my observations generally correspond to it

[Anonymous No.18702065]

>suffering is ok...because...because, it... it just is, ok!

Truly can't get what goes inside of someone that thinks like that,

[Anonymous No.18702097]

>>18702065
More like it's a reality. Your problem is thats all you focus on, there is plenty of good feelings to be had as well. But I guess that's what makes you a bitch ass pessimist at the end of the day.

[Anonymous No.18702110]

>>18702041

This doesn't even mean anything.

[Anonymous No.18702112]

>>18702097
Nigger, I know that there are good things in life, the point of antinatilism is not about the living already, you Low IQ nigger gorrila, is about making a fucking bet with someone's life.

[Anonymous No.18702126]

>>18702110
its the most common sense position there is you moron

[Anonymous No.18702164]

>>18702110
Kek ofcourse it doesn't, there's some sekret 18th century Hungarian philosopher that we're all conveniently neglecting to mention who talks about how reality is actually not real

Funny that you should use terms designed by real humans to argue concepts on a real forum on a real computer with your real underaged faggot fingers

Why don't you communicate to me in 10th dimension, faggot?

[Anonymous No.18702196]

communicating in the 10th dimension with Tyler rn, you guys want anything?

[Anonymous No.18702273]

>>18701243
>You need to touch grass
I've only ever started hearing this phrase recently and it makes me think of a naked autistic child caked in shit coming out of a hole in the ground and stroking some boomer's lawn

[Anonymous No.18702296]

>>18702273
This shit spreads from social media almost instantly. A new phrase appears overnight and everyone fucking uses it. There's that buck shit too that didn't exist last week and now it's everywhere. I wish it were just spam AIs but you see it everywhere else too, people just repeat shit now like parrots.

[Anonymous No.18702304]

>>18702196
Take your meds, schizo.

[Anonymous No.18702428]

>>18702065
>suffering is bad...because...because, it... it just is, ok!

[Anonymous No.18702682]

[Anonymous No.18702767]

>>18702682
kek

[Anonymous No.18702784]

>>18696430
???

[Anonymous No.18702792]

>>18700895
Okay but why wouldn't you choose to experience joy at everything if you could?

[Anonymous No.18702804]

>>18700693
You need it in order to grow.
You need it so you can appreciate the good.

[Anonymous No.18702908]

I got a vasectomy because I'm an antinatalist.

I also live with my gf and have sex regularly - you nerds should try it sometime..

[Anonymous No.18703073]

>>18696115
>So even if they are miserable, they will not commit suicide and continue suffering for the sake of others. This does not mean they enjoy life or think it is worth the pain; they simply do not want to hurt others by committing suicide
Lmao me

[Anonymous No.18703234]

For the vast majority of people pleasure outweighs any suffering they might endure. You're never going to convince anyone except other depressives. I don't know why you keep posting this.

[Anonymous No.18703287]

>>18696140
>suffering is good!
if suffering is good then it’s not suffering. if you want to suffer, you’re not suffering

[Anonymous No.18703300]

>>18702908
>you nerds should try it sometime..

Living with YOUR gf or having sex?

[Anonymous No.18703307]

>>18696137
>noone dares address this

[Anonymous No.18703311]

>>18703287
>masochism not real!

[Anonymous No.18703693]

Antinatalism < Efilism <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< STROGG ism

[Anonymous No.18704448]

>>18703073
You're lying to yourself.

You're just justifying your fear of death as a more noble emotion to avoid the realisation of what a pathetic wretch you really are.

[Anonymous No.18704551]

>>18696162
jfl this pissed everyone off and no one has a good response to it, good shit

[Anonymous No.18704594]

>>18699328
>they're hedonistic, undisciplined, sociopathic, psychotic, sadistic, they are incapable of patience, curiosity, sharing, following directives. They cannot be trusted at any point until they reach adolescence
That's every child to ever live

[Anonymous No.18704646]

>>18703073
It's good thing that you show worry of hurting others. It shows you have deep compassion and still have significant attachment to existence.
You should certainly pursue those things that keep you steady in our reality instead of dragging yourself down continually through the hellish rabbit hole that is anti-natalism and nihilism.

[Anonymous No.18704647]

>>18696115
do it for your senpai

[Anonymous No.18704846]

>>18702126

More to my point.

[Anonymous No.18704853]

>>18702804

Both claims are demonstrably false.

[Anonymous No.18704921]

>>18696115
>you can’t have babies because my feefees are hurt >:(
Modern philosophy everyone.

[Anonymous No.18704934]

>>18700830
>reads the Bible (unlike his father)
Kek

[Anonymous No.18704942]

>>18702682
Kek

[Anonymous No.18705048]

>>18696115
It's only unethical to have children if you are poor and non European.

[Anonymous No.18705101]

>>18700693
Working out hurts, yet you get sex in the end
But as you are an incel you shall never grasp this

[Anonymous No.18705173]

>>18705101

Causality is itself absurd.

[Anonymous No.18706139]

>>18701162
As always, sentiment precedes argument. Benatar just put into coherent language what people blindly believe anyway.

[Anonymous No.18706557]

>>18696137
What's it like being dead, corpse?

[Anonymous No.18706780]

>>18702000
you are a dumb faggot

[Anonymous No.18706789]

>>18706557
I wouldn't know, but that's what I'm asking the anti-natalists

[Anonymous No.18706791]

>>18702097
No, there aren't. "Pleasure" is just a more digestable form of suffering.

[Anonymous No.18706832]

>>18706780
You're a coward

[Anonymous No.18706871]

>>18702000

What makes you think the performing the deed will yield the intended results?

[Anonymous No.18706893]

>>18702000
t. have kids and now wants everybody else to suffer the same fate

[Anonymous No.18706897]

>>18706871
It's really not that hard to swallow a bottle of painkillers and drink a bottle of red wine

[Anonymous No.18707015]

>>18706897

I mean the deed of successfully committing suicide.

[Anonymous No.18707023]

>>18704853
Howso?

[Anonymous No.18707043]

>>18705173
Women detest inconsistency and lack of ambition

[Anonymous No.18707069]

>>18707023

It is demonstrable that "too much" suffering only leads to destruction, it is NOT demonstrable that ANY amount of suffering leads to any amount of growth. It is demonstrable that one does not need ANY amount of suffering to appreciate anything good.

[Anonymous No.18707095]

>>18700693
How can you know any joy without any pain? To comprehend anything is to compare it with something else and realize the key differences. In a world without suffering nothing would have value or worth. No sympathy or empathy would exist and there would be no connection people would have with each other. To say it's unethical to reproduce because you're bound to bring suffering is the same as saying it's justified to reproduce so that you're offspring can experience joy as well. The amount of either is arbitrary so you can't really argue that there will be more suffering than joy. The current times we live in are not reflective of the entire lifespan of our species and this cannot be used as an example of more people suffering than not.
>tldr suffering is not inherently bad because it is necessary for joy

[Anonymous No.18707100]

>>18707043

Do you understand what "causality itself is absurd" means?

[Anonymous No.18707109]

>>18707095

Which of these is more enjoyable: hugging your grandma or hugging or grandma after lighting her on fire?

[Anonymous No.18707133]

>>18707069
That's just not true. As my post >>18707095 states, being that our brains work on a comparison based system. Suffering is inevitable to experience any real joy. Furthermore, it has been proven that through adversity many people have appreciated the growth they went through to overcome it. Like a previous anon stated, working out and going through that adversity has brought positive results in a person's inner and outer strength. You can't just claim that "ANY amount of suffering" does not lead to growth

[Anonymous No.18707156]

>>18707133

Yes, I can, and I do. Since it is demonstrable that "too much" suffering only leads to destruction, the lesser kinds and degrees of suffering are likely to correlate, not cause, any and all amount of growth, which is observed despite the suffering, not because of it.

[Anonymous No.18707166]

>>18707109
Hugging my grandma, but let me ask you this. Why is hugging your grandma enjoyable? Say you hug her everyday and you nor your grandma will ever die so you'll always hug her for eternity would it still be enjoyable? Would it not be a chore after a few thousand years? In that scenario there's no initial suffering involved because you'll both never die and neither of you ever feel the pain of being deprived of a hug from each other, yet there is no happiness that would derive from this

[Anonymous No.18707173]

>>18707166

So you concede that your argument is divorced from reality?

[Anonymous No.18707180]

>>18707166
>>18707173

Like clockwork, by the way: >>18700771

[Anonymous No.18707181]

>>18707133
You clearly havent suffered any serious crisis you fucking moron using pain from exercise as an example of suffering. Jesus, these are the retards we take literary inspiration from? Go back when you're older than 19

[Anonymous No.18707194]

>>18707156
Without that suffering there would not have been anything for the growth to initiate from. You wouldn't have gotten stronger if you just sat there and let your arms get weak. Also the fact that you're using "too much" to describe the amount of suffering bring destructive doesn't prove anything. "Too much" of anything is destructive. Too much water and you'll drown but you still need it to survive. You can't derive the idea that because too much suffering is destructive then a lesser amount is destructive as well.

[Anonymous No.18707207]

>>18707173
You can't disconnect life from suffering so in arguing that life would be better without it is disconnected from reality. I merely painted a false reality that would fit your apparent argument. But you failed to actually argue against that scenario or my point so your question is irrelevant

[Anonymous No.18707225]

>>18707194
>You can't derive the idea that because too much suffering is destructive then a lesser amount is destructive as well.

I can, and this is more toward my point of radical skepticism. Indeed, why would any amount of water actually cause you to live when its excess apparently causes you to die? It is much more intellectually honest to renounce Causality entirely and turn to Occasionalism.

[Anonymous No.18707227]

>>18707181
Now you're just arguing about amounts of suffering. I've already mentioned that the amount is arbitrary and "serious crisis" is subjective. The original argument was whether suffering in general was useless/unethical. Stop projecting onto the argument and getting emotional about the topic so you can think clearly
>Go back when you're older than 19
Ya great ad hominem

[Anonymous No.18707232]

>>18707207

I believe the original question was one of doing away with life altogether, no?

[Anonymous No.18707236]

are there really only like 90 unique posters on lit?

[Anonymous No.18707253]

>>18698093
Lol, this anon is admitting to be a retarded faggot and
>>18698868
>>18698093
are lapping it up. Actually, since you are a faggot ant brain, maybe it is best that you don't reproduce. Good on ya!

[Anonymous No.18707255]

>>18707225

Also, I doubt anyone in this thread will understand this, but note how Causality actually destroys the very actuality of its object(s): per the water example, it could be said that things have no actual quality whatsoever and only are per a continuous all-pervading quantity, Dialectically approaching the very Gnostic arguments of the world being totally illusory.

[Anonymous No.18707257]

>>18696155
I subject myself to suffering by continuously getting triggered by these threads. I love it

[Anonymous No.18707261]

>>18707225
>It is much more intellectually honest to renounce Causality entirely and turn to Occasionalism
It's not though. In the bounds of this reality, whether an external force outside our perception is behind it pragmatically there is cause and effect. Furthermore using the word excess implies the existence of the limit of water you can consume and ergo the realistic bounds between too much water(suffering) and enough of it

[Anonymous No.18707267]

>>18707261

This doesn't even mean anything.

[Anonymous No.18707276]

>>18707100
Calling causality absurd is absurd in itself, as you, and especially you, are incapable of applying or subtracting meaning to causality (inconsistent). The sciences also tend to show there is a final cause to natural phenomena, such as the purpose of DNA to create more copies and variations of itself, the final cause of movement and heat being entropy, so the universe isn't silent on meaning (and why would it? Meaning is saying that there is truth, and the physical laws are what is true.)
Secondly, people who hold that causality is absurd in the first place think they have no meaning in their lives (life is part a continuous causal chain) which is expected for an antinatalist incel. Ambition requires that life has meaning as there would be nothing to ambire towards if life didn't. Thinking that life is only about suffering is to subtract meaning from life, and this consequently makes ambition impossible.
And that's why you can't have sex

[Anonymous No.18707294]

>>18707232
Well doing away with reproduction altogether because with life comes suffering so to bring forth life is apparently unethical

[Anonymous No.18707318]

Man, this thread is good proof that you should just stab people instead of arguing with them

[Anonymous No.18707367]

>>18707276

This is barely grammatically coherent, the first sentence is gibberish.

[Anonymous No.18707389]

>>18696446
No thanks, I don't wish to do that.

[Anonymous No.18707399]

>>18707367
Can't find any meaning in English too, amazing

[Anonymous No.18707415]

>>18707318
yes man why do so few people understand this \
books for this feel?

[Anonymous No.18707434]

>>18696115
>don’t commit suicide because they are afraid they will survive
Retards. You won't survive jumping off a bridge 200 meters above solid ground.
>fear the pain
Bad call. Jump off a bridge 200m over ground and it'll be instantaneous.
>don’t want to hurt others
That's your problem for being too considerate of others. If you genuinely believe your existence is wrong, you shouldn't keep it going.
>social stigma
In that case, the stigma is the problem, not the act of being brought into this world itself. Besides, what the fuck does stigma matter to you when you're dead? Again, you're just being retarded
>the survival instinct
People have kids due to instinct too, so if you can't expect people to kill themselves due to instinct, you can't expect people to stop having kids either.
>etc.
Fuck off, list the other reasons if they exist or don't mention them at all.

TL;DR: ANTINATALISTS ARE AN EMBARRASSMENT TO THEMSELVES AND OTHERS

[Anonymous No.18707792]

Bump

[Anonymous No.18707935]

I am literally retarded to the point where I cannot function, I cannot be relied upon because I'm stupid and I always mess up. It's not due to character or some weird comorbidity, my brain is just stupid and it does stupid things. It's generalized poor brain capacity. If I had to bring my kid to kindergarten I would with absolute certainty forget it in the car and find it dead. How am I supposed to tell myself that I should keep on living? The very foundation of my person is broken, I'm a useless burden and nothing else. I cannot keep a job because no company would give me an ounce of responsibility. People trying to trust me to not forget or fuck things up have suffered the consequences of it to their embarrassment or financial costs. Why should I not kill myself?

[Anonymous No.18707953]

>>18707935
Nobody understands how difficult it is to live as a retard, as some low IQ subhuman who cannot function like a proper human being. There's nothing worse than this, you can still be useful without a leg or some other problem, it's impossible to be useful without a brain. And there are so many people today that in no way I can justify keeping myself alive and waste breath and food for everyone. I'm so fucking tired.

[Anonymous No.18708254]

>>18696115
Ultimately we have a personal responsibility for our own lives and for our own happiness. In the case you see it as an impossibility, we have—to borrow Sartre—the radical freedom to leave. I see no reason to blame one's parents—they are not responsible for your happiness, you are—for begetting you; even if your life is suffering, it is not your parents' fault nor responsibility. They gave you an opportunity; how you use it is your choice. Likewise, you have the choice to choose oblivion, and is it your responsibility to worry about the mismanagement of the 'potential handed to you', of their sadness and disappointment when you do not outlive them?
I don't see how one can blame others for one's suffering, for being 'forced into this world of flesh', whilst simultaneously avoiding suicide to prevent parents and friends from feeling quilty. How can you both blame them and feel quilty for their feeling responsibility?
You were given an opportunity—for better or worse—to happiness and more. If your hopes were never realised—be it for fate, circumstance or personal responsibility—can you ultimately blame anyone for being given that chance?
Even if it all comes to naught, is not the possibility—as remote as it may have been—better than nothing at all?

>Many people are miserable but don’t commit suicide because they are afraid they will survive, fear the pain, don’t want to hurt others, social stigma, the survival instinct, etc. They never should have been put into this situation in the first place.
Ultimately it is their choice, their responsibility; they can blame none but themselves. They may be miserable, yes, but they might have not been; they might still not be. Whether they take that chance is responsibility of none but theirs alone—a child can blame his parents for his unhappiness but it is reprehensible for an adult to do so; he must choose for himself – and live for himself also: One cannot spend his whole life in the shadow of one's parents; if one feels that life itself is a mistake he must decide whether to see it through or to end it forthright; to blame someone else is outright cowardice. One must bear the responsibility of living one's life—whether he's prepared for it or not—and the responsibility for ending it also.

[Anonymous No.18708333]

You whiny faggots and the author of this tripe don't know what suffering is.

[Anonymous No.18708668]

>>18708333

[Anonymous No.18708682]

>>18707953
If you've had sleep apnea you can understand a fraction of it.

[Anonymous No.18709072]

>>18708254
This is by far the most retarded post I've read in a while.

[Anonymous No.18709756]

>>18696162
>anti-natalist intellectuals

[Anonymous No.18709801]

>>18700939
>vast majority of antinatalists are urbanite, career oriented people who want to enjoy as much casual sex as possible

Like Ligotti, right? Come off it, man...

[Anonymous No.18709810]

>>18696115

>Ignoring that it's unethical to disobey God and introduce suffering in the world by your own actions

>Ignoring that it's through suffering we come to remember God, since temporary happiness distracts us from eternity, but happiness born from union with God touches eternity

>ignoring that without God you have no rational basis to presuppose that suffering is even bad, it's just appeals to "muh feels"

begome Orthodox, accept your suffering in the world as your personal golgotha, and draw close enough to God so that you could, like countless martyrs, be subjected to torturous suffering by butthurt atheists and feel nothing but the joy of eternity

[Anonymous No.18709819]

>>18709810
Kike on a stick

[Anonymous No.18709903]

>>18707255
How did you know i was gnostic?
>ft. YWYH

[Anonymous No.18709917]

>>18707255
I really enjoy your mentioning of this because all reality is nothing but your perception. Everything that you objectively take for truth is blanketed by your subjective experience and perception of the physical world around you that is limited by your 5 senses

[Anonymous No.18709967]

>>18707255


>the attempted proof that causality destroys the actuality of its objects of this is a hypothetical "It could be said", not a conclusive proof

Ironic that an argument against actuality is posited on purely hypothetical grounds. Why are we supposed to believe hypothetical speculations?

Granted, if you were to try to conclusively prove (and not just hypothesise) that causality destroys actuality, or that causality does not exist, you would have to commit to a performative contradiction and utilise causation in an argument.

Become Orthodox, stop being gnostic sophists and accept that God has made the world, and you in it, and that it is intelligible by virtue of His Word, despite your attempts to saw off the branch you are sitting on.

[Anonymous No.18710154]

>>18698160
Ultra gigs based, keep struggling on based brother. Do not let the Lastmen poison your spirit

[Anonymous No.18710156]

>>18696115
What if by evolution or science a man is made without self. Would his argument still apply? I posit that it would not.

A alien or construct without self that can still reproduce and survive, might be a evolutionary benefit, maybe even superior to those with. The sense of self and ego might be a evolutionary cul-de-sac.

If a person could exist at all times in a flow state, never self conscious, never self aware, never pondering mortality or its own failures. That seems functionally superior. Considering its the idea state for all athletes who "want to get out of the way of thinking and just do" or scientists who have a "eureka" moment while taking a shower, maybe his philosophy only applies to a subset of state of consciousness. Ones that will eventually be weeded out.

[Anonymous No.18710184]

>>18696115
I have enjoyed my life and want to prolong it. I appreciate that my parents brought me into being, and I will strive to secure a good life for my offspring. If you are an anti-natalist, chances are your parents and community failed you, and for that you have my pity.

[Anonymous No.18710214]

>>18700693
Suffering is one of the major forces in human progress

[Anonymous No.18710267]

>>18699472
People don't have children for their benefit to society. The closest you get is people having children in the hopes that their children will become famous by benefiting society, and the parents will be able to leech status from that. Societal benefits from reproduction are a side effect, and there are many people that society would benefit more from not being born.

>>18700964
You made the choice to feel bad about my post; I've done nothing to you.

[Anonymous No.18710338]

>>18710184
I'm happy for you, and if your description of your own life applied to everyone, I think it would be hard to find an antinatalist anywhere. But let's say you're part of the 95% of people who live happy, fulfilled, long, and loving lives. How can you be certain that your children will also be part of that 95%, and not be born a psychopath or pedophile or mentally retarded or a disfigured cripple without working arms or legs, or any of the other demographics not suitable for life in modern society? But maybe it's not 95% and 5%, maybe it's more like 99 and 1. Or maybe even 99.9 and 0.1. What's a suitable risk chance to justify playing Russian roulette with your child's life? What will you do if you roll the dice and lose, and conceive a child incapable of enjoying a life worth living?

[Anonymous No.18710345]

>Life is pain and suffering
Well thats your opinion you fucking absolute retards. Life would be a lot better if we didn't have stupid fucks like you noncing about. Now do us a favour and kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.18710359]

>>18696115
An entire "argument" that basically amounts to an even dumber exploration of the subject than a Taylor Swift song.

[Anonymous No.18710480]

>>18710338
The only possible solution is to detect these problems during pregnancy and abort if present.

[Anonymous No.18710656]

>>18709967

This is even more incoherent than the meatheads' posts above. My God.

[Anonymous No.18710666]

>>18710214

See: >>18707069

[Anonymous No.18710685]

>>18710480
Sure, assuming you don't believe life begins at conception. But a lot of these things can't currently be screened for, so can we agree that it's unethical to conceive children until it's possible to screen for or fix all of the genetic and developmental problems that can lead to someone being born into a life not worth living? That still doesn't address the chance of burning to death or other possible instances of suffering, but I'll grant that there's probably some point at which the continuation of the human race takes precedence over an extremely insignificant chance of the child being made to truly suffer or die.

I don't think we're there yet though: there's currently no risk of humanity dying off, and there's still lot of people suffering through awful lives due to circumstances that can't be predicted in advance.

[Anonymous No.18710706]

>>18710685
All we've agreed to is that there is a certain degree of risk which is acceptable. For you, it must be far lower than what it currently is. For me, the current risk is acceptable.