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>Death is the price you pay for living. Be grateful that you had the chance. It is truly a miracle that you are even alive. Of course, the price you pay for li
by proveanegative 12y ago
>Death is the price you pay for
living. Be grateful that you had the
chance. It is truly a miracle that you
are even alive.
Of course, the price you pay for living is not just death at the end of your life but also suffering throughout. Just how much suffering you will experience depends on many random factors the effects of some of which (like genetics and early childhood environment) are either very difficult or impossible to mitigate.
The hardest question to confront is whether the price of living is one worth paying. The antinatalists among us think that the answer to that question is generally a "no".
- hw 12y agoAs much as we ask ourselves whether the price of living is one worth paying, more than often we would prefer to pay down due to the inherent nature of survival in us all. Even for those who experience a lot of suffering that possibly brings one to prefer death, whether one thinks that life is worth living is subjective. It not only depends on how much suffering you experience, but how much you value everything else relative to suffering.
- proveanegative 12y agoSure, you can make that judgement for yourself, if under the pressure from your self-preservation instinct. The antianalist argument of the kind summarized in [1] concerns not your continued living but whether you should bring new beings into the world. One can't ask one's unborn children to consent to be born and hence to suffer. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalism, "Moral Responsibility".