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I'm not sure what you mean as what is my goal. I guess I meant in the OP three years ago that we live in the imperfect situation of a world where we u...
December 18, 2018 at 16:29
No, you are purposely using my argument against me in a way I overtly said in the last post it shouldn't be used. I purposely said that this is an imp...
December 18, 2018 at 16:24
This is rhetorical blather. You know that procreation is the direct cause of someone else's existence. This whole "there's nobody there until they are...
December 18, 2018 at 12:34
What agenda would you put above preventing suffering in the unique case of procreation. In this situation you can prevent, all future suffering for a ...
December 18, 2018 at 12:22
If the children are harmed by being brought into existence when the alternative is nothing, then nothing is better alternative as it is always good no...
December 15, 2018 at 02:57
Yes I can agree with this conclusion. I think your formulation of the argument makes sense. To add to this, I'd like to throw the idea out there that ...
December 13, 2018 at 11:19
I would not characterize it as a sum of all persons or potential persons. Rather in the scenario of choosing whether to procreate, when considering if...
December 12, 2018 at 20:11
Ok, so now what? We agree to disagree.
December 11, 2018 at 17:21
Counter: You can never know how much there will be, why take the chance? If you predict wrong? Even if you think it is a low chance, is that worth it ...
December 11, 2018 at 16:41
Are you always on disagreeable mode? I'm trying to reconcile the fact that the basis for axiological considerations in morality are hard to prove one ...
December 11, 2018 at 16:07
That's fine, but I am giving you the reasonings for antinatalism. You can choose to agree with the principles are not as they are laid out. I think it...
December 11, 2018 at 15:46
This is a good question. I think the justifications for the original axiological settings get murky. Some use "intuition", for example. Harm seems to ...
December 11, 2018 at 15:34
If you look at my last paragraph you'll see that I said it is a difference in values between the antinatalist and pro-birth position. If someone does ...
December 11, 2018 at 15:27
Benatar's asymmetry is based on the idea that preventing harm is always good even if there is no actual person, where preventing pleasure is neither g...
December 11, 2018 at 14:51
Here's some quotes from his in the Wisdom of Life https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/wisdom/complete.html#chapter1: ...So arises an ...
December 10, 2018 at 02:23
Grateful Dead
December 10, 2018 at 02:09
The X Beings don't experience pleasure or get deprived of it. This is not good or bad. The humans experience pleasure, this is good. The non-existent ...
December 10, 2018 at 02:08
What would you like input on? Dealing with mental illness is one of the harms of being alive. Like most other things in life, in order to get better y...
December 10, 2018 at 01:59
If no negative states were attached to the deprivation then the outcome is not bad. I would just like to see a human with no negative states due to de...
December 09, 2018 at 17:48
So you are describing a non human situation? Is it relevant?
December 09, 2018 at 05:55
You pick the outcome and not the cause for rhetorical purposes. But if we are going to go down this absurd route between a situation where the only th...
December 09, 2018 at 05:53
I just told you- creating situations of lack, and more strongly, adversity for something when there was nothing there to originally experience lack or...
December 08, 2018 at 17:20
It represents having a lack. Why create situations of lack, (and adversity) for something that doesn't need to? To put a put a premium on adversity or...
December 08, 2018 at 17:15
Yes I wrote a response focusing on thresholds for starting life vs. continuing life.
December 08, 2018 at 17:11
Um, did you read anything else? Ugh, I'm disappointed you associate your avatar with GD symbology. Shame.
December 08, 2018 at 17:07
Sure it is, and one clever part of Benatar's argument is that the different thresholds in starting a life and continuing a life. I would take the hard...
December 08, 2018 at 16:20
It isn't the activities that result from the suffering, it is the lack that is there in the first place. It is not an immediate physical pain. It is y...
December 08, 2018 at 15:48
You did a great job bridging utilitarian antinatalism with philosophical pessimism/structural antinatalism. Structural antinatalists (like myself) wou...
December 08, 2018 at 15:39
Your scenario about X beings is that they don't feel pleasure. Well, this follows under Benatar's idea that if something already exists, then it is be...
December 07, 2018 at 23:20
I'm assuming you were talking about the idea of antinatalism and that you are anti-anatinatalism because birth brings more experiences of pleasure and...
December 07, 2018 at 15:15
But Benatar takes into account outcomes. What is the outcome of pleasure being prevented (and no one there to be deprived of it?). What is the outcome...
December 07, 2018 at 13:50
The difference being that we are not talking about X beings that already exist, but no being at all. It can be regrettable for X beings that they don'...
December 07, 2018 at 12:53
A lot of the intuition of why preventing pain is always good, where preventing good is neutral comes from this type of thought experiment: To this it ...
December 06, 2018 at 22:45
So this is precisely why its an asymmetry. Pleasure is only good as person-dependent, no pain is good is person independent. Benetar is pretty clever ...
December 06, 2018 at 15:56
You have to look at the argument as a whole.
December 06, 2018 at 15:17
Ok, so the contention is over the use of absolute/relative or intrinsic/relative. The point that I think we both agree he is saying is that preventing...
December 06, 2018 at 13:27
But then, that's your judgement, not the person you would be creating's judgement. Even if probability was a factor (high, low, what have you), preven...
December 06, 2018 at 13:22
I don't have the book with me. I used to have it but no longer in my possession. If you have an online source, please let me know. From what I gather,...
December 05, 2018 at 22:42
The weight is on the negative. What is good is that painful experiences did not occur for an individual. Pleasurable experiences not occurring does no...
December 05, 2018 at 11:17
Then it's the baptism thing.
December 02, 2018 at 08:41
Something to do with proper names being different.
December 02, 2018 at 05:50
Hey solved your problems
December 02, 2018 at 05:35
Fine just add in epigenetics and the physical properties that make them unique. This wouldn’t change it much. Also I meant rigid designator, not defin...
December 02, 2018 at 05:26
Kripke was into scientific essentialism so I would suppose that something like your unique DNA fingerprint would be considered a candidate for a rigid...
December 02, 2018 at 04:55
DNA
December 02, 2018 at 04:49
The rigid designator is the person's DNA :D
December 02, 2018 at 02:40
Good points.
December 01, 2018 at 22:16
In this case it is just a means of how you weigh the utility. More births means more deaths and suffering anyways, so it is short-sighted.
December 01, 2018 at 15:45
How are those two things equivalent? You don’t need to give birth to survive.
November 30, 2018 at 02:51