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This is not even a question, being born into a life of slavery and ultimately being slaughtered is worse than not being born. Think about it, you are born into
by nsonha 5y ago
This is not even a question, being born into a life of slavery and ultimately being slaughtered is worse than not being born. Think about it, you are born into a prison and given no chance to even develop a proper consciousness. This is very different than a fully aware human getting locked up in a prison.
- suifbwish 5y agoHowever since the individual being born is not making the choice, it falls to the individual or group benefitting from the individual being born into the circumstance you described. Universal morality is a form of anthropomorphization, or projecting human characteristics onto an amoral natural world.
- nsonha 5y agoThis is like the pro life argument. I love it when people are so argumentative about such a simple thing. We are talking about birth control, there is no individual exists to make any choice. > Projecting human characteristics onto an amoral natural world. this is not a bad thing comparing to the alternative which is assuming that animals are too dumb to be sympathize with
- kbelder 5y agoI don't know that all slaves would agree with you.
- nsonha 5y agoI made that last sentence just to preemptively respond to your argument. Also live stock is much worse than slavery