“pro-life” is like “pro-fire” or “pro-water”
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Imagine if medicine valued the absence of negative affect as seriously as it values the absence of death
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isn't that more the domain of psychology/psychiatry
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yeah I wish that branch of medicine was 1/100th as effective as like, emergency medicine
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“One of the implications of my argument is that a life filled with good and containing only the most minute quantity of bad—a life of utter bliss adulterated only by the pain of a single pin-prick—is worse than no life at all,” Benatar writes.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/04/09/the-case-against-kids …
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haha I wrote a book about that - amusingly the more recent new yorker article name checks it
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Until then, they should at least quit trying to stop negative affect sufferers finding other remedies.
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yuuuuuuuuup
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Wild applause for this opening & the whole thread. Sorry if I overloaded it with polemical freight.
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I woke up cranky, many such cases
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sorry
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