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- Sep 13, 2023
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Hypothetical question: If you could go back in time and had the power to push a button to prevent the reaction that created life, would you?
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No, you would die as well. Life would never arise in the first place if you pushed the buttonwait but the wording seems funny. so i prevent life but will i still be alive after? lol
Better never to have been, right?oh. sorry, i missed that part about a button. i would feel bad but yes, id press it.
If you pushed the button, then they would never have come into existence, so they wouldn't even have been able to love life or be grateful to be alive at all. Wdym "life is such a miracle?"No, not fair on the 99% of people who love life and are grateful to be alive.
Life is such a miracle that it wouldn't take much to ensure it never happened.
I never really can get my head around the idea of people saying they didn't consent to be born, or would be better off not born etc. The whole concept makes no sense to me, the reality is we were born and there infinite peoeple who are not born. The logic makes no sense.If you pushed the button, then they would never have come into existence, so they wouldn't even have been able to love life or be grateful to be alive at all. Wdym "life is such a miracle?"
Why do you think it's a miracle that life came to be? It's better never to have been because life is suffering, and if you never existed you would never have to suffer. There's an asymmetry between pain and pleasure in life. There's endless, constant, never-ending ways to feel pain and few, fleeting ways to feel pleasure. Pleasure and happiness is something ephemeral and transient in life. Life always demands and requires something from you. Everyday you have needs that you have to meet, and if you don't, they're demonstrated by pain (hunger, thirst, etc).I never really can get my head around the idea of people saying they didn't consent to be born, or would be better off not born etc. The whole concept makes no sense to me, the reality is we were born and there infinite peoeple who are not born. The logic makes no sense.
Why would wiping out 100% of life be beneficial to just us 1% who have untreatable depression? The logic makes no sense. I don't hate life or humanity.
I think its a miracle that life came to be.
I just know it's not meant for me to enjoy life, but that's OK, society and the human race doesn't owe me anything.
But cats...i'd press it more eagerly if all vegetation was left and of course the leaf eaters of this world. vegetarians don't count :p
It's just a thought experiment and those people wouldn't even be alive to feel joy in life and existence. I had the idea from Darkover's post. Darkover's post was wiping out/killing all life but mine is making sure that no life was ever created in the first place.Why would I selfishly take away the genuine joy some people find in life and existence just because I don't share in it? I might have gripes with my own existence, but I'm not delusional enough to think that there isn't any good in the world and everyone deserves to not exist. Plenty of people find joy in life despite their struggles and invalidating that makes no sense. The only person whose life anyone should be responsible for is their own. Pushing someone's own rhetoric of how all life is pointless onto everyone else who don't share in that belief seems incredibly selfish and I can only think of one person in this forum who would do that with a smile on their face.
trust me i'd like to keeps dogs around myselfBut cats...
Pretty much how I feel.People should be able to experience life If they want to but have the option to exit if they want
This is truthPeople should be able to experience life If they want to but have the option to exit if they want
I agree. Why do you think that we don't?People should be able to experience life If they want to but have the option to exit if they want