I think that the immensely meaningful relationships, aesthetic value, resilience, and the other numerous positive experiences of life (love, accomplis...
I do hope that your week will go well. Apart from this, you can write whatever you wish to. I have expressed my reasons for disagreeing with the asymm...
Again, I was not trying to make this about you. The point was a broader one that I felt was relevant in the context of the value of life. I am sorry i...
Well, I don't think that it is correct to say that the absence of suffering is good even though there is no satisfaction resulting from it, but someho...
That is good. But many people (by which I mean almost all antinatalists I have talked to) agree with his assessments. After a particular point, one st...
It is. Professor Benatar and many antinatalists talk about how good experiences are not as good as they might seem (the so-called positivity bias). I ...
I am, and I disagree with it. I don't think that the absence of suffering can be "good" or better for non-existent beings if the lack of happiness is ...
This is also about the value of life and making decisions on the basis of what one does know. Improvements are good because they help people live bett...
There is no empirical evidence that most people don't value their lives or that there aren't good moments that we did not expect. Cases like the follo...
My point was about preferring one's existence to never having been there. It is also possible for people to value some aspects of their lives while al...
Certainly. If something immensely good is already there, it will probably act as a source of significant value and would therefore make it unnecessary...
Behind the resignation lies an approbation. The only pertinent point is whether it is always good for all individuals at all points of existence. I am...
If it's not necessary to cease doing something, then it's at least permissible to keep doing it. However, I wouldn't say that people should be pressur...
I would agree with the suggestion that the idea of a breach of trust makes sense in the sentence. Although, I would also feel compelled to mention tha...
Ah, I would still have to say that the usage does not capture the full spectrum of what I intended to write. This appears to suggest that I was primar...
Of course I agree. They didn't just breach the trust; it was pulverised entirely. It took the collective effort of Mahatma Gandhi, Pt. Nehru, Maulana ...
The idea itself does make sense. However, in the sentence wherein it was used, I believe that the definition that I had in mind is befitting. "Breach ...
I, for one, would be glad if others could think for me and provide me a good that I can't solicit yet. Of course, it's another matter that the idea of...
I've just imbibed these words by reading people a lot more eloquent than I could ever hope to be and tried my best to enhance my lexical resource. Tha...
As long as one isn't an absolutist with a pernicious agenda (which you most certainly aren't), it's indubitably important to stand by the truth as one...
I know too little, sir! However, from what I think I understand about the commingling of madness that happened in 1947, the violence was primarily bet...
That's wonderful, Mr Smith! As long as good people like you keep breathing, hope for a new dawn will persist. (Also, considering that nice comments ar...
From what I know, we are programmed to reproduce. However, as rational sentient beings, people can find satisfaction in something apart from that. It ...
It's evidently difficult for some people (of a pessimistic disposition) to understand that something cannot be forced if it doesn't go against the exi...
Projections and deliberate Ignorance don't negate the reality of the good and the joy of meaningful bonds (that cannot exist without cooperation). But...
It's never acceptable to presume that not providing unfathomably valuable experiences and a lifetime's worth of positively meaningful conditions is ri...
The existence of which is not a sufficient justification for preventing all good that could be bestowed on behalf of innumerable innocent sentient bei...
Except for existing beings who wish to be consistent and who would understand the value of a benefit. Life is also about celebration, not just worry. ...
Of course it does not. That's quite lucky because we don't have to worry about the ethical deficiencies that following a non-beneficent framework crea...
I would not comment on the purpose of the cosmos, but I am glad that we don't have to presume what it should not have despite it deserving and benefit...
Amen, sir. And as long as concerted efforts and an indomitable spirit remains, perhaps there would not be a need to vote for the former aspect for muc...
I agree! By value, I was referring to positive and negative experiences. Assuming that non-existence is neither good nor bad, it doesn't make sense to...
If value dies with existence, then it lies in existence (obvious but still worth mentioning). The good that matters for us (which transhumanism can al...
The Hindus seek to elevate the self (which is said to be one instead of being partitioned, which is just maya) towards the ultimate reality. It's not ...
Anaesthesia can still feel somewhat pleasant. However, death is neither good nor bad for someone who doesn't exist. However, the process of cessation ...
I agree that value and disvalue both reside only in existence. Some people seem afraid of the void as if it would bring about some terrible void, wher...
I don't think I am. The good is a source of pleasant experiences that don't exist when one doesn't exist. If one cares about having those goods, then ...
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