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Nobody should have kids, we should just drift off into extinction. Nobody has been able to tell me why that would be a bad thing without using anthropocentric reasoning.
Tell me why anything should or should not happen without using anthropomorphic reasoning.
Anthropocentrism is good.
I actually agree.
If we all die who would take care of our pets?
If you really think about it, why should life itself exist at all? The purpose of life is to simply reproduce. Well... what if it didn't? Nothing, it just wouldn't exist. It is a bad thing or a good thing?
You can get very philosophical with this one, but I do agree that we humans deserve to fade out. So many atrocities, so much... pain, and all for really stupid reasons.
Lack of good = neutral
Lack of bad = good
Non-existence is always preferrable.
Funny how people asserting that, continues existing to assert that. I find that very inconsistent.
So you don't see a difference between never having existed and killing yourself? Weird.
Have kids and love them tremendously but the world is such a clusterfuck that I'm ok if i don't have grandkids.
Your position is nihilist anti-intelligence, so it has nothing to defend.