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It 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 pai
by Johanx64 1y ago
It 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.