Antinatalist

I remember when I was ten, when Descartes was introduced to me. I thought he was wrong. I made conclusion that only sure thing is that things are cert...

Against Descartes: ""I think, therefore I am" presupposes logic without any proof of it. Side note: You can´t prove logic logically. If you try, it is...

In my opinion sentience does not define life. But I think, most valuable and meaningful life is sentient. — Antinatalist I certainly agree. I agree fo...

Hard statement. Are you kind of person, who attacks to the abortion clinics? That something is natural, it doesn´t make it good. You should google Dav...

They are never. I don´t think that kind of immorality follows from my opinion about right for abortion (It is indeed moral obligation at first couple ...

One thing is that, we can say a fetus is a human being by biological definition. I see slippery slope here and also a fallacy, which comes by natural ...

By biological definition yes, I agree. The ability to sentience is essential, when we are discussing are we going to give - or give we not - human rig...

According to my own limited knowledge, I would say Kurt Gödel.

Now I have to admit, my intellect could not follow your logic.

Yes, I agree. But I don´t think that value of the sentient life depends on intelligence.

Killing causes more suffering and is extreme violation against person who will be killed. It is extreme violation against person´s sovereignty and aut...

A human fetus could be biologically human in essence of biological definition, but it is not sentient being at the early stage of pregnancy. That is t...

That is not what I said. I consider human life has a great value, but I don´t regard young human fetuses as human beings. All what´s in your posts are...

Study biology yourself. There is lots of suffering among of others animals in the world, in the nature and on the other hand, caused by human beings. ...

A fetus isn´t human being at early stage of pregnancy. You are nobody to judge who should forced to be born. Having a child is a selfish act. The mora...

In my opinion the question, is a person intelligent or is she/he not, is not relevant for her/his value. The ability to suffer and feel emotions are r...

Sometimes I hear comments like this on other subjects: "It´s not much of a loss for him, because he didn´t know of better." This kind of statement ass...

So, what about euthanasia? Isn´t the same situation there? It is not enjoyed by anyone, at least not the object of euthanasia. Because after euthanasi...

In early stage of pregnancy, a fetus isn´t sentient being. After moment of the conception, there is a cell lump. It´s quite analogous to compare it to...

Okay, let´s try again. In my point of view, it´s relevant to say it is better that there is a world without people suffering, than a world with people...

My example was like that to show how absurd conclusion the idea "If we are in a position where we cannot ascribe propositions such as "people are suff...

A fetus, not a sentient human being.

Couple of pages before in this same thread I answered to Isaac. After all, he didn´t agree with me. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/...

That´s why I put the word "state" on quotation marks.

On suicide. The possibility of suicide of course exists. Once born, however, a human being is highly unlikely to have the sufficient skills to commit ...

Ability to feel emotions is one criteria, not the only one. A living person usually have also, for example, future plans, some interest for current an...

Our point of views strongly disagree. Five days old human zygote is not sentient human being. One very essential point when we value something is have...

I´m not sure that I can follow your logic. Do you mean that killing, let´s say five days old tsygote, is a bad thing? And if so, is it as bad thing th...

I have to add, that logic is logic. And tautology is a tautology. And some arguments are better - and some worse - in pure logical way. And I correct ...

Like I said - or at least mean - usually demarcation line is hard to set at some particular point, and only at that point. But i think you make harsh,...

I certainly agree. I also think, that David Benatar is right about on abortion, at least at the most part. I´m against killing sentient human being. D...

I think Kant´s point is still valid. The cobbler has at least at some kind of choice, what she/he will do in the world in general. The forthcoming chi...

Let´s compare the act, having a child, with another question on existence, the termination of life. Let´s assume that an adult human being seems to ou...

Deprivation is not the right word. Something, which doesn´t exist doesn´t suffer from deprivation. Then again, if someone who already exists will be k...

The essential in this case is what is good for the child. If we think, for example, not having child will cause despair for child´s potential parents,...

Thank you. That was at least quite familiar. But perhaps I should revise things that I´ve read years ago and now forgotten. And in moral philosophy in...

I have to strongly agree, at least for the second part. For your first sentence, maybe so. But I´m not sure, I have forgot so much of the philosophy, ...

I understand your point. But when I´m saying that not having a child is morally neutral, I mean not having a child is a moral obligation. My point of ...

That is very complex case. "It is logically absurd that a part – private life – is important and meaningful, but the whole – life in its entirety – is...

Let´s call the Hell scenario as Scenario A, and let´s call the alternative option, where nobody exist, as Scenario B. You say it is nonsensical to say...

That kind of thinking reminds me from some comments on language theory. Some people say there are no non-linguistic thinking (Temple Grandin would dis...

Thank you.

Let´s assume there is entity called God. God created the world. God created also two billion human beings to live in the place called Hell. Living in ...

I have to agree with you. But if you mean having a child and not having a child are both neutral acts, then I have to disagree.

Thank you for the recommendation. :)

I was a teenager in early nineties. I thought about existence, being and non-being. Coming to life and exit from life (to non-existence). I thought lo...

Thank you!

I have to disagree. An example When planning a statue portraying American rock star Bruce Springsteen, the statue does not exist at the moment of plan...

I have to disagree. In some theoretical and hypothetical Utopia we can think, that life doesn´t cause suffering. But that´s Utopia, not the real world...

Thank you for the information. :)