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The anti-natalist is the most narcisstic of persons because he takes his narrow experience of life to be a sufficient condemnation of it as "bad" and, even more, claims to know in the first place what constitutes a "good" or a "bad" life
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99% of anti-natalists have depression or other health problems.
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The idea of "depressive realism" often has a hand in forming anti-natalism, yes
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strawman condemnation man don't even think david benatar who coined the term had all that bad a life, same with Zapffe.
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I'm not saying an antinatalists life is necessarily bad. On the contrary, they choose to value it as bad by valuing it with very limited criteria; through an extremely narrow, usually negative-utilitarian, lens
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fair enough I guess I don't see how this is much different from the majority of politics or ethical philosophy but meh, depends on one's epistemological standpoint.
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sick body -> sick mind
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