I honestly think a decentralized planned economy sounds much more appealing than a centralized one. If you go by the libertarian socialist lines of th...
just wanted to bring this up, but if you accept that things can be good or bad regardless of whether or not someone is around for them how come you’ve...
I’m not going to lie to you, it’s true that what I believe would be a better world certainly does sound like a fantasy. Heck, anarchists or libertaria...
libertarian socialism is an umbrella term for a lot of ideologies like anarchism, anarchist communism, communalism, council communism, etc. A social d...
Nothing really substantial the way I see it. They are a party of pure reaction and do not really stand for "small governments" as much as they say the...
Existential threat for some and not all I suppose. Even on the optimistic targets Miami is still going to be underwater by 2050. It would be foolish t...
Thanks for reading what I wrote and taking the time to correct me, you're right I didn't really think what I said through. But I'm honestly confused a...
The thing is though is that most climate scientists aren't really saying we only have "12 years" to save the world. The people who are giving this "12...
I've said my piece, and I think its fair. Nowhere does this blog say "everything is fine, go back to consuming" it just said "not as bad as the media ...
I used to think it was too late, and we were all going to die, but then I came across this Quora called Doomsday Debunked: https://robertinventor.com/...
The Lord of the Rings-JRR Tolkien The Silmarillion-JRR Tolkien Dune-Frank Herbert The Ethics-Spinoza The World and Will as Representation-Schopenhauer...
@"khaled" I thought your responses for this were pretty convincing, but how would you respond with the interesting objection that enabling the capacit...
But why is the pessimistic view of everything automatically assumed to be more “honest” and the optimists are full of shit with their heads stuck in t...
I think the idea is that antinatalism is pointless because preventing people from suffering doesn’t benefit anyone. I’m not antinatalist but I think t...
I think the idea is that the “benefit” is there was no bad state of affairs that occurred, which is part of the asymmetry. IE it’s good a bad thing di...
yes but I think it’s important to realize that most antinatalists aren’t trying to save the unborn, they’re just trying to prevent a future state of a...
I agree with this, but how do we draw the line at who is able to parent? Can they only parent if they have good reason to believe their children will ...
I don’t see why there’s no such thing as a non existent future person. Sure they actually don’t exist, but we do stuff for people who don’t exist all ...
I have always found it fascinating how our intuitions for these exercises can change drastically even when hypothetical scenarios might seem analogous...
Sorry I felt like your explanations in the intro were a bit confusing, so is your belief that suffering is not sufficiently caused by being alive? If ...
@"Isaac" @"Benkei" @"khaled" I haven't read the whole debate, but I think the fundamental disagreements here are over what choices would be unreasonab...
I actually agree with most of your points here against libertarian ethics, but now exactly is the way out (if someone TRULY hates life) a minor inconv...
yeah I actually recall (though I might be wrong) that Benatar himself admits his asymmetry ALONE doesn’t lead to antinatalism, that’s why he adds that...
perhaps another issue might be that the asymmetry seems (at least to me) to extend to infinity. As I’m sitting here typing, I can list off a million p...
“If you start railing about the aggregate "good" for the "whole" had by having your kid (which is really presumptuous by the way), then that would ind...
aw yeah, then agreed. I remember reading that when polio was big and scary, they had to get Elvis on TV and take a vaccine to prove to everyone it was...
Got it, but some questions first: Do you think it's bad that we have this bias (if it's real) ? I personally don't see why it would be bad if someone ...
Sure, I think so. But maybe I might not be fully grasping what you're getting at...Are you asking that does this knowledge I have of everything onit's...
I actually think one should have practical know-how, and my reasoning is that I think it poses a problem in the realm of public perception. For exampl...
Yeah exactly, we just don't know. I do know there has been talk of inviting transhumanist David Pearce here. He is a non academic philosopher, but he'...
from the arguments I’ve seen, animals only “matter” in the equation if your antinatalism is purely based on a hedonic output (suffering outweighs plea...
This is kind of a random question, but I like your responses so I’m interested in seeing what’d you have say. What if there came a time where human be...
just wanted to say your posts in the “all things wrong with antinatalism” thread convinced me. Now, If you had 100% certainty that your future kid wou...
if for whatever reason we DID need to force the Lifeguard to teach life guarding lessons (there’s a shortage) would it then be okay? Personally I thin...
“Let's say you did the calculus and indeed the greatest number of people would be saved if he did this. There is something wrong with this. But what?”...
I don't think I would, honestly. There's only so much the world can offer before boredom overtakes us. Though I think it would be interesting to have ...
This guy has always been very interesting. I never liked hedonism and I question whether fully eliminating suffering and all forms of discomfort would...
I think it’s important to realize that not every normative ethical standard out there defines suffering as inherently bad. Personally I try to reduce ...
I am personally skeptical of whether it’s possible to actually be a philosophical pessimist and still retain a happy mood. After I looked up Schopenha...
because some of these sacrifices don’t apply when raising a biological child. Adoption to me doesn’t seem harm free, because when you adopt a child, y...
While it’s true that more ought to adopt, I don’t think adoption is the catchall solution here. Adoption is an incredibly expensive, tedious, and even...
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