Antinatalist

It may not sound rational of point of selfish gene (little bit anthropomorphism here). I see evolution simply as a mechanism. There are no physical la...

My statement is that having children is morally wrong. I answered with following citation of my original text to I like sushi: The basic argument is a...

I´m not sure do I understand your point. Can you clarify what you mean?

Strange logic.

The fundamental difference of those acts - crossing a road or having a child - that when you are having a child, you are playing with another person´s...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollyanna_principle Maybe for someone, but there is definitely lots of people whom those are not excuses.

Many people are fearing suicide. Something of that fear could be evolutionary fear of death (this was "good" for selfish gene in human history). Somet...

I answered to I like sushi. I doubt, that an antinatalistic view comes from person´s own misery, in general. Of course there could be some people who ...

Yes, normally that kind of acts will be considered morally wrong.

I think assisted suicide for under-aged people is wrong. It is different thing if they commit suicide on their own. I know you can see discrepancy on ...

Not actually, because I found assisted suicide for children and under-aged unethical. Even so, although they can live in horrible environments and und...

One point of view is that you can be unpolite, and give the gift back; or you can decide to never use it. Or throw it away. You can not return your li...

I certainly agree with this, also. Yes, I think that way also. Preventing harm is more important than happiness-bringing.

Gift could be harmful, but comparing gift to having a child is, although natural, but also very extreme thing to do. For potential person´s point of v...

I definitely agree with all of this.

I agree with you. Do you mean when somebody - there is not somebody, but how can you express this correctly in natural language - does not born, it wi...

I think that most people are against antinatalism because it seems - or perhaps really is - so unnatural. The evolution is a mechanism, what "decides"...

First reason to not to have children: Like I said, it is decision for someone´s else´s life and that someone else pays the consequences of that decisi...

The basic argument is as follows: we have no moral right to cause something that radically changes the existence of another individual or – to be more...

I published my article: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/11738/is-it-wrong-to-have-children

I have an article about antinatalism, although when I wrote it, the concept of "antinatalism" was not familiar to me (I wrote article in 2004, but I t...

I slightly disagree. I quote Edward O. Wilson and my response for him in my essay from 2004. This is long quotation, but I think necessary. Biological...

I disagree.

Pro-life people seems not so pro life when we are including their threats and actions against abortion doctors to the whole picture.

You are making a naturalistic fallacy by its definition. Of course the naturalistic fallacy can be itself a fallacy. Sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson t...

There could be some important nuance in your defending, and I don´t reach it. Are way speaking of the same thing? Moore simply says that "goodness" ca...

I want to agree with you, but I think you are making a naturalistic fallacy. I also want to say I value pleasure as a good thing, but if we look just ...

I think I understand your point of view. But I also think that "pleasure is good" is a meaningful, informative statement, while it is even a truism pe...

"The act of dying is one of the acts of life." (Marcus Aurelius) I´d read this couple of minutes ago. I have been thinking similarly about twenty year...

Pain could be good for to reach the higher ends or to prevent more suffering. But who needs those, if there is not life in the first place. In biologi...

Some religious movements believe that even masturbation is wrong (like you mentioned). And Catholics don´t accept contraception, but often Catholic Ch...

There could be some options. Some religious people would say, that there is some divine, supermundane values. As an atheist I don´t personally believe...

Hey for you, also In the other thread I said (this is old - but still valid - fragment of my philosophical essay from 2004. I didn´t knew the word "an...

I agree. I have to agree. And yes, I think we are having fun.

If something is natural - or unnatural also - it doesn´t yet tell a thing about its valueness/antivalueness. But I agree, human mind has its limits, b...

There at least couple of arguments, which relate on suffering: The first one argues that "life is suffering" is not true in general, but life contains...

I think that the relevance is in the question is that we define as a "good" really "good". We have values, but we don´t know is it good that we have t...

I don´t believe at all, that all antinatalists don´t have suffered. And let´s suppose, that even if you are right on this, "life is suffering" is not ...

"The open-question argument claims that any attempt to identify morality with some set of observable, natural properties will always be liable to an o...

Mix those two things together, religious suicidal cult and post-nuclear war situation. It is at least possible that everyone agrees on mass suicide. A...

When someone is making an reasonable a priori judgment, I understand it so, it has to be true by definition. It is another question that are a priori ...

I think, that if there is situation, when everybody thinks that suicide is good option, it still is not necessarily good option. There´s some religiou...

I was thinking that perhaps reasoning about a priori judgments is itself intuitive. That reasoning, which evaluates is some a priori judgment true or ...

So you think all a priori judgments are reasonable and discursive, but there is no intuition at any level. I agree. But then again, if you radically d...

Perhaps so, but what is the relation between a priori judgments and knowledge? Just asking (what you think). Yes, it is. At same time, it seems to be ...

If just looking and thinking about suffering of others, one could come to conclusion that antinatalism view is the right one, I think antinatalistic p...

I think about an option, when people don´t know what is best for them. For example, everybody can think that mass suicide is best for everybody and fo...

I simply don´t understand your point. Wallace´s fate and - also crucifixion - is horrible. I don´t wish such a fate for anyone.

Those moral standards are quite universal, I think. My own opinion is murder, rape and child abuse are very bad crimes. Theft is wrong also, but in my...

My life was good when I was a child. When I was older I have suffered. But at world scale, not so much at all. There are millions and millions of peop...