Anti-natalism is neurotic self-hatred, rationalized by eco-catastrophism, into hatred of our whole species.https://twitter.com/HumanProgress/status/1141693179521056768 …
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Would you elaborate on a video/blog? I have yet to find a single counter-argument that is not a red herring.
Benatar's argument is totally circular. His negative utilitarianism assumes that only suffering counts, & pleasure can never offset it, & then concludes that net utility is negative. If you delete all positive numbers then the average of all possible numbers is negative. So what?
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It is not that only suffering counts. He says rather that in the absence of a sentient life, the absence of joy is not bad bc the joy has no subject who feels the loss anyways. The absence of pain on the other hand matters; it is better that nobody suffers.
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You never look at Mars and say god dammit there is no martians enjoying their life. However you look at the people living in the poorest slums in world and say god I wish nobody would endure this terrible fate.
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If you just blow off his explanation of the asymmetry, yeah.
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