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Antinatalism Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (10 children)

It's the other side of the same coin. They both argue about the well-being/bad-being of hypothetical humans. It's bogus, either way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

They are not related because you have to exist to experience well-being or "bad-being". What I'm talking about is consenting to exist.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Longtermists try to justify their actions by invoking potential, future generations. Those don't exist either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

They're presuming that people will exist, which is not a wild assumption

But that's not a philosophy I particularly subscribe to so I don't feel compelled to explain or defend it further.

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