BAM! Yeah this. Larkin is all those guys I went to university with, super big into postmodernist relativism and the death of meaning, then gliding into management.
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I mean, you can be glib about this but the world is getting less and less inhabitable. I don't think your young children are gonna thank you for having them when they grow up. Especially if you lie to them.
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Replying to @iridienne @digiwonk and
Not sure if this is directed at me, but if it is, I’m not being glib? I like being alive, as long as I have my meds, so I don’t think the same is too unlikely for my kids.
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At 4°C of global warming when infrastructure has completely broken down and nobody can GET meds? Which is, like, maybe 50 years off?
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Replying to @iridienne @schanoes and
I mean, i genuinely believe at this point that the only long-term hope for the planet is for human beings to die off as quickly as possible, tbh. My hope is in the K-T boundary, where we lost 93% of all species but the Earth recovered.
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Replying to @iridienne @digiwonk and
Ah, see, that's one of our differences--whereas while I care about other species in a live and let live sort of way, don't care about them enough to wish to see humanity sacrifice gone for them. That's a fair enough difference, I think.
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Replying to @schanoes @iridienne and
My antinatalism is the philosophical kind (like Benatar and Ligotti's), not the ecological kind Which is in some sense more narrowly focused - the great harm human beings do is not to other animals or "the planet" but to themselves
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Replying to @arthur_affect @schanoes and
And more narrowly, the harm of your existence isn't the harm you do to other people, but *to yourself* But in that sense I think it's actually the big picture way of looking at it The tragedy isn't that people are bad people, that we're not smart enough or kind enough
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Replying to @arthur_affect @schanoes and
The tragedy *is people* "People", as a concept, shouldn't exist Sapient consciousness is an evil in itself, it by nature *is suffering* and can only be resolved by ceasing to be
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
Yes, this is a perfect example of why philosophy and I have never gotten along. I just don't agree with that, doesn't match my experience of being sapiently conscious, and even if I did agree, wouldn't agree that therefore the answer is to cease to be.
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I've always felt this way to some degree, is the thing, and it wasn't philosophy that taught me to be anti-life, just gave me words to use for it that said I wasn't necessarily "crazy" for believing it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
Oh, I don't doubt it. It can definitely speak to your experience without at all resonating with mine. But that's why we don't agree about the morality of making children.
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