• Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    I’m glad my parents didn’t think like that. I vastly prefer non-optimal life to not existing at all.

    I’m also not going to have kids but I do it because of me, not because of them. I don’t understand people who think they are so wise that they can make this judgement for others.

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      8 months ago

      I vastly prefer non-optimal life to not existing at all.

      How could you possibly know that? Do you remember not existing?

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        8 months ago

        If I didn’t want to exists I would commit a suicide. The fact that I don’t want to do that indicates to me that it’s better for me to exist than not.

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          8 months ago

          There is a massive difference between never existing and taking existence away from someone that already has it

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            8 months ago

            From subjective experience theres no difference. The moment you cease to exists you could just as well have never existed.

            Also not existing is not something you do. Choosing to prevent something for existing that otherwise would have is. We’re however getting quite far from my original argument here which is that not making children because you think the world is an awful place and life is not worth living is, in my opinion, a bad reason.

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              8 months ago

              Have you considered practicing how to convey your thoughts and opinions in a less arrogant and off-putting way?