Having children is immoral (antinatalism)

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[QUOTE=Polerius]

  • Being grossly disfigured in an accident
  • Losing the love of your life at an early age due to some disease
  • Witnessing the love of your life slowly wither away in a hospital bed
  • Losing a child
  • Being diagnosed with a terminal illness at the prime of your life
  • Having a debilitating chronic illness
  • etc

I don’t see many people going through these and then thinking “suffering isn’t always so terrible”.
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I’ve known persons who have experienced things on that list and I can’t recall any of them choosing to take a downcast view of life. Off the top of my head, most of the people I 've known who choose to wallow in self-indulgent despair and cynicism have not had lives packed with major tragedies.

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“Every” human life is not “filled” with suffering. Some people suffer more than others, and some people suffer less than others. Some people suffer due to their own choices, some people suffer due to things outside their control. It’s a crapshoot at best, and if you “lose” the throw you can abate your suffering in various different ways (leaning on friends and family for example).

It (antinatalism) is the stupidest thing I ever heard of in my life.

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You sure seem fond of copy-and-pasting that post.

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This thread was first revived as a ZOMBIE, then the OP of this thread started a new thread: Having kids is immoral.

I have closed this one.