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It is very strange to be so afraid of pain you try to prevent other people from ever living by bombing a fertility clinic.
by colechristensen 1y ago
It is very strange to be so afraid of pain you try to prevent other people from ever living by bombing a fertility clinic.
- AnimalMuppet 1y agoEven if you completely buy that line of thinking, your bomb is predictably likely to cause someone pain. So even if they believe it, they're acting inconsistent with their beliefs.
- zb3 1y agoHowever if that would end all future life, then the equation holds.
- throwaway74655 1y ago[flagged]
- Johanx64 1y agoIt is very much consistent, a person - intent to have children isn't a single node. It's a whole tree. If you cut the tree at the stem you likely reduce net pain experienced by orders of magnitude. Most people don't think this way, but it is very much consistent with their views.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoBuddhism acknowledges that life is suffering. Life is never perfectly free, easy, or comfortable except for a lucky/selfish few thousand, but there is making it better and making it worse. Cutting off USAID food for starving people is bad.
- madaxe_again 1y agoChristianity holds that the suffering of Christ brought man closer to god. Hinduism holds that suffering cleanses the soul. I suppose the takeaway is that you take what you choose to take from your experiences.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoI think most religions teach something along the lines of "life is sacred" (definitions of "life" may vary). Without this limitation or common sense, priorities may get inverted and someone decides that people being alive is the "cause" of problem X (suffering, climate change, whatever). While it worked for Stalin and the Unabomber, it doesn't sound like a moral, healthy, or sustainable approach.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoIt's entirely illogical and unreasonable, but the urge to be noticed along with delusions that this will "change things" are overwhelming to people stuck in their own dark worlds. Plus, there are mental health concerns that go without saying.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoMental healthcare and positive community participation by younger men are nearly absent in America. It's no surprise incels, school shooters, and Unabombers would be produced by a combination of antipathy, isolation, frustration, and hopelessness.