RE: Antinatalism
December 6, 2016 at 6:18 pm
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2016 at 6:38 pm by bennyboy.)
Yeh.
You could be anti-breathing, too. You'd suffer for a couple of minutes, and then avoid maybe 40 years in which you curse all your suffering and completely ignore any good or pleasure that you might experience. The asymmetric hedonism behind antinatalism is arguably the most counterproductive philosophical idea I've come across.
Now, if one's reason for antinatalism were more pragmatic, I'd be 100% fine with it: "I don't like kids, and there are too many people in the world anyway, so I don't see any benefit in reproducing" is a perfectly legitimate and ethical position. "I don't want to create kids, because they'll suffer and their potential joys and pleasures are philosophically unimportant. . ." that's just depressing goth talk.
You could be anti-breathing, too. You'd suffer for a couple of minutes, and then avoid maybe 40 years in which you curse all your suffering and completely ignore any good or pleasure that you might experience. The asymmetric hedonism behind antinatalism is arguably the most counterproductive philosophical idea I've come across.
Now, if one's reason for antinatalism were more pragmatic, I'd be 100% fine with it: "I don't like kids, and there are too many people in the world anyway, so I don't see any benefit in reproducing" is a perfectly legitimate and ethical position. "I don't want to create kids, because they'll suffer and their potential joys and pleasures are philosophically unimportant. . ." that's just depressing goth talk.
