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Question: “I recently listened to a podcast on anti-natalism. And needless to say it left me churning for the last few days. The pro-anti-natalist made the point that due to the vast amount of suffering in the world verses the sparse amount of pleasure/good that if we were to look at things from the perspective of the as yet to exist child that the said child would obviously choose nonexistence. I can almost understand this proposition but find myself in the end disagreeing with it. Now this brings up a few conundrums for me. Firstly in order to have any opinion/perspective a thing would have to exist in some form, so then wouldn't a person be causing undo suffering by consciously denying that hypothetical child the opportunity to experience whether it is full of pain or not. It seems to me that this is almost a case of the grass is always greener on the other side wherein from a materialist perspective (I'm not exactly a certifiable materialist) there is no such thing as nothingness outside of the human mind. Even in quantum mechanics a seemingly empty space has the potential to spontaneously produce little bits and pieces. So how in the real world would we have any concept on whether nothingness would be better than even the most painful experiences?”
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I get really pissed off when losers try to drag me down too. To be human and healthy, we all need to exercise the full range of our emotions, righteous anger being among them. Anything else is masochistic and sociopathic I would say. Let it out and point the emotion in the right direction whether it be love or pain or risk yelling about a "cockadoodie penguin not facing south!" one day, to site a literary example.
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Please be cognizant of your own "idiocy" when selecting the phrasing of your post titles Stefan. I've been a listener of your work for a long time but increasingly find you condescending and lacking in the very analytical approach that you claim to revere.
I understand the concept of not judging books by covers but the title of this post alone has turned me off listening to the content and I wont be donating to support further such asenine approaches to what could otherwise be an interesting collection of ideas and debates on this topic. In one sentence, you link the label "idiot" to people who hold a particular point of view.
It's unfortunate. I hope you assess my comment dispassionately and perhaps consider whether it resonates with you as I would like to see improvements in this part of your otherwise historically enjoyable, well researched work.
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