their lives are mostly aimless suffering and they don't possess the cognitive sophistication to try to find purpose and meaning despite that suffering
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it seems clear to me that it's better not to be born than to be born as a non-human animal
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You're anthropomorphizing human consciousness onto nonhuman consciousness and as such your assumptions are senseless since they draw a false equivalence.
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Furthermore, the manner in which animals struggle to maintain their lives implies that, despite any apparent suffering, they desire to live. As such, it doesn't make sense that they would wish not to be born nor to be able to breed.
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Since alongside suffering in life is enjoyment, the idea that life must end to cease suffering is absolutely incomplete. If life ends, then so does enjoyment.
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Furthermore, since you don't believe nonhuman animals have the capacity for meaning, they must not have the capacity for higher order suffering either. Since for suffering to be more than mere pain, one must attach meaning to it.
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Thus, if anything, anti-natalism only makes sense for humans.
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