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Woah this is pretty dark, but a very good read. “I mourn for the people I know who are dying, which is all of them, but some much quicker than others.” Lookin
by faeyanpiraat 6y ago
Woah this is pretty dark, but a very good read.
“I mourn for the people I know who are dying, which is all of them, but some much quicker than others.”
Looking at older people and animals around me, and instantly thinking “well, they probably don’t have much time left” is quite depressing.
There was a Sam Harris podcast episode where he and his guest argued about whether is it better to suffer through life, or not existing at all.
- ciarannolan 6y agoThe podcast, for anyone interested: https://samharris.org/podcasts/107-life-actually-worth-living/ https://samharris.org/podcasts/107-life-actually-worth-livin... > In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with David Benatar about his philosophy of “anti-natalism.” They discuss the asymmetry between the good and bad things in life, the ethics of existential risk, the moral landscape, the limits and paradoxes of introspection, the “experience machine” thought experiment, population ethics, and other topics.