• BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I’m advocating for the elimination of poverty, disease, death, pollution, war, hate, and all human suffering.

    Sure, there are some neat things in this world that are worth experiencing if you were forced to live. If you’re already alive, of course you should seek to find happiness and enjoyment in the little time you have.

    Still doesn’t justify forcing more people into the world to exacerbate the problems we have - overpopulation being a major one.

    It’s not evil. Things were fine before us, and things will be fine after us.

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      1 year ago

      “Things” were not observable by anything with the capability to designate them as such, so no they were not “fine” in any meaningful sense of the word.

      You’re literally doing the speech the villain does to make him seem reasonable.

      I am literally begging you to find a therapist.

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        1 year ago

        Semantics, but if you really want to get into it, a lack of ability for things to be good or bad is still better than the existence and perpetuation of suffering.

        Also, responding to differing worldviews with “see a therapist” and comparing them to a villain is fucking horrible.

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          1 year ago

          How could it be better? There’d be no one around to make that judgment call, so it’s a fundamentally illogical statement.

          And I calls em like I sees em Mr. Saturday Morning Cartoon Villain Apologist.

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              1 year ago

              Surely the core arguments that an anti-natalist might bring forward apply to any sentient beings, right? Like, a cat didn’t give prior consent to existing any more than a human did. Ergo, I do think it’s reasonable to point out that there would be no observer that could witness, much less enjoy any benefit from, the anti-natalist ideal world.