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Benatar says the bad outweighs the good for everyone. If you're refuting his first principle, are you really even talking about the same issue?

• humanrebar 9y ago
  > If you're refuting his first principle, are you really even talking about the same issue? To apply his theory to his own ideas, if they lead to or even support suffering (infanticide, racism, genocide, supervillainy), wouldn't his memes also be better off stillborn? In that way, I'm making a meta-critique. So it's "talking about the same issue", yeah. Assuming the issue is "what do you think of these ideas?"
  • hashkb 9y ago
    You're just being inflammatory and clever. Benatar would be appalled if his ideas were used to justify eugenics.
    • humanrebar 9y ago
      No. I just think life is intrinsically good and think there are philosophical consequences as ideas deviate from that axiom. Besides, even if I were a troll (I am not) and Benatar were appalled (I presume he would be), neither fact addresses my point.