And I think that's ridiculous, as an absolute statement. I think sometimes it may be "guessing ridiculously" (whatever the threshold for that is), and...
Depending on the circumstances, there may be cases where stealing a horse would be the right thing to do. But that's not what the tale means. It means...
In other words, how many spectators must there be in the Colosseum before their harm reduction from watching someone get mauled by a lion justifies ha...
The same critique does apply to negative utilitarianism. There's no universal metric to measure harm, and therefore one cannot actually compute harms....
That is not true. It was not your position yesterday at least, which was that only harm should be accounted because your only moral imperative is to r...
Okay so accounting for future harm of hypothetical generations is something you can do but not accounting for their future joy, for some mysterious re...
More harm, but also more joy. Why are you not counting the joys that life brings? If your only measure for life is the amount of tears shed, of course...
And I have pointed out that living, at least in society, involves taking chances with other people's lives. By that I don't mean that it's okay to be ...
Well, this being the AN argument, my argument is that life is far more important than a mere accounting of harm and joy, and that its complexity is be...
You have less harmful alternatives than driving a car: you could go shopping by foot or bicycle; you could order your groceries on the internet; heck,...
Key word: probably. What justifies taking the risk? How do you know what consequences you acts will have? You make a probability calculation? If you c...
That's not a fact. You don't know for sure when you take the wheel to go do some shopping, that you will not kill a dozen people in some horrible acci...
And yet we take decisions that affect the life of others all the time. You do it when you drive a car, you do it when you wear a mask in public (or no...
If you don't find my posts of value, simply don't respond to them. Simplify your life. The reason I'm insisting is I don't think very highly of your i...
Think about this a little bit more: just because life was bearable to you until now, it doesn't follow that it will stay that way. All the risks that ...
If life could be full of harms, and if that risk justifies not giving life to a child, why should the lives of AN be an exception? Why should they opt...
Because they think that life is full of harm, that's why. They think it is better for a child not to be, and therefore, if they were presented with th...
AN should be big suicide fans, in theory, but there's some unpleasantness about it. So let's remove the unpleasantness in this thought experiment: One...
Even people who have kids rarely see anything wrong in not having kids. I believe that people who willingly try to not have kids do it for a reason. I...
I find this a rather sad view of the universe, and boring too. A more interesting approach in my view is to understand the function of suffering, as a...
Well, in my experience, all it takes is meeting a girl who wants kids, and who likes you enough that she wants them with you. That’s the power of natu...
Why of course, it’s not your decision to make. I trust that the AN are not trying to stop other people from conceiving children, and that they are jus...
There's no such thing as European philosophy, or African philosophy. This sloppy language is a form of essentialism, an internalisation of racism by p...
As I was singing "BORN IN THE USAAAAAAA" at the top of my lungs in the apartment, my wife kindly reminded me that I was born in Toulouse. So here is a...
Billy He's down by the railroad track Sitting low in the back seat Of his Cadillac Diamond Jackie She's so intact And she falls so softly beneath him ...
In order to make a human embryo grow blind, you have to destroy something. At a minimum you have to take a huge number of genes and delete them from s...
The fact is that nobody was technically 'put' in such position, because to exist is to be in that position, and no one even existed before they were i...
The comparison is not correct because the someone in question does not exist before conception. Parents give life to their children, their force no on...
It follows that they see their own life as inherently good and good to hold on too, like many other people do. And the children of the once antinatali...
My comment was more general than that: if life becomes unbearable, there's always the suicide option. This is true for antinatalists themselves. Of co...
Go easy on us. We've heard only primal screams coming out of the White House for the past four years... That may be too long a list of rational, creat...
You mean it was a collective effort? You bet. America had to pull it back together. The choice was between democracy, however imperfect, and neofascis...
A lot of folks have showed up and stumbled, though. It’s quite facile and shallow now to say that it was a shoe-in, after he won, or that this or that...
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