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It comes down to you vs. them. And they are clearly happier than you are. I see you've been reluctant to frame this as a matter of "my opinion vs. the...

Why fight the antinatalists so much?

Because it makes us feel good. It's the pleasure of a clear conscience: "I didn't cause harm to anyone." For some people, it's one of the highest plea...

How are these not religious?? Each of these works out of a very specific metaphysics system respectively that are alien to the average Westerner. Perh...

But surely Lacanian theory is about _something_? Found this:

But what does this have to do with Lacan?

As long as people are self-confident, all will be well. You just need to believe in yourself.

I edited the OP with additional information.

It hangs there insofar a philosophy doesn't propose to have the final answers. The other thing that comes to mind regarding the OP I can't quite artic...

The weakness of your and @"schopenhauer1" 's line of reasoning is that it requires far more compassion and mercy than people usually have. The other w...

Think about it. What does it say about the universe that people can do immoral things? What is more, they can do things that some people consider "imm...

Of course. More below. Don't forget that the State owns your body. Literally. From what you've said so far, it seems that what you actually have faith...

In traditional Japanese culture, there is also the concept of rebirth tied in with suicide; there, suicide isn't seen as the total end of one's existe...

Extreme unending agony is possible only in a scenario of eternal damnation. In most other scenarios, death of the body is taken to mean the end of suf...

Look at the way people usually talk. They typically use you-language.

This is too general. There's a lot that goes unsaid, but is expected to be understood in that propaganda. Namely, that the pregnant woman should be ol...

Like with so many things, religious/spiritual people tend not to practice what they preach when it comes to sex and procreation. I remember a Catholic...

Certainly not when the pregnancy is the result of a rape, or by "the wrong man", or at the wrong time.

To use your term, at least Sisyphus isn't thirsty then, with all those water boys catering to him. In other words, with the above line of reasoning, y...

And a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, so great minds are against abortion and in favor of capital punishment.

Sure. But as long as you live in a secular country, your mental health is going to be assessed by secular/atheistic standards. You don't actually have...

You framed it that way earlier on. In WW documentaries, I have heard of suicide letters from them that give me reason to believe that they in fact did...

"Mental health", as assessed by secular, atheist psychology/psychiatry? Perhaps if one first believed in the Bible, and only later became afflicted wi...

Can you provide direct quotations? Your interpretation is not in line with Nazi ideology. It's certainly an interpretation in line with what many peop...

Yet there are people with a speech disability who don't believe in God, and yet seem to be doing just fine. Belief in God isn't necessary in order to ...

It does matter, so that people can direct their lives best. Except that it's often not clear what that is; people sometimes wonder, sometimes they are...

How do you know that?

But in order to make such a demand for demonstration, you're already working out of a totalizing meta-narrative. IOW, you're already decided which god...

Yet many pro-lifers are in favor of capital punishment, so, clearly, the termination of human life is not all that repugnant to them. So it must be so...

I'm asking you what you make of the fact that people are able to procreate (some people, at least; the ability to procreate is not a given). What mora...

That requires belief in one's eternal damnation. This is a very specific belief.

Again: How do you know that? Can you substantiate your claim with empirical evidence, or is it just conjecture?

How do you know that? Can you substantiate your claim with empirical evidence, or is it just conjecture?

People tend to treat others like zombies anyway: "You are whatever I say that you are. You feel whatever I say that you feel. Your intentions are what...

You can never know that anyway. It's why revenge is such a drag.

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Yes. There's research on this, e.g. The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently...and Why.

Presumably some suicide attempts are intended to fail to begin with (the harm inflicted upon oneself is clearly not grave enough).

The problem with the innocence of infants is that it doesn't last, it's corruptible, inherently so. It's not innocence proper, one that would last. Fo...

But what do you make of the _fact_ that people are able to do so and do it? How can we intelligibly talk about the _right_ to have children, when ther...

Not just he, but many other Nazis as well.

What's the bigger harm (or harms)?

More likely, it's those same parents and siblings -- and friends or a spouse -- who actually drive a person into suicide. More pertinent than suicide ...

The real question is whether those people who failed in their suicide attempt "found reasons to live" because those reasons were somehow already prese...

I heard (in a documentary about immigration in Australia) that Asians, specifically, the Chinese, tend not to be interested in politics and government...

He's not your comrade and you're not his, and you know it.

And this is how right-wing authoritarianism wins: By "good people" doing nothing and just being all politically correct, destroying some small offende...

Misogyny at its finest.

Because the whole world doesn't revolve around you ...

*sigh*