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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2018 1:39:25 GMT
Saying “life is hard,” of course, does not diminish its value. Life is the only thing that grants value or meaning to anything. Think of all the beauty you have seen or enjoyed in life – especially that created by fellow sentients – and try to imagine no one left to experience it – this is the meaning of the extreme anti-natalist stance. Again, we do want people to be reasonably sure, if they have children, that they will be well provided for. Once born, though, a fellow sentient should be treated in a way that will bring out the potential for love and fascination immanent in each of us. Bringing out this potential is a challenge now, as depression is becoming epidemic in my country, so I would advise anyone with the time to create and/or share works that might help. "Life is hard" refers to the cost of life. And life has tremendous costs not just for the particular person/animal living that one life, but on any other person or animal affected. So for one single human life, there is a cost to other humans and also the animals who needed to be tortured, have their habitats ruined, etc, in order that the needs of that one human can be met. I'm as sensitive to the beauty in the world as anyone; but I wouldn't have been deprived of it had I never been born...and neither would you, nor anyone else. It's impossible to imagine a world without anyone to appreciate the beauty, because by trying to imagine it, you place yourself within it as an observer. But there's no reason to think that the universe as it existed before sentient life was a tragic place with any void of experience that urgently needed to be filled. |
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