WhyIsLife56
Antinatalism + Efilism ❤️
- Nov 4, 2019
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This post is to address the horrors of life and a bit of discussion on the antinatalism/efilism stance. According to biology and history/anthropology, humans as well as animals came from and evolved from nature. Humans weren't designed. We evolved from another kind of animal, monkeys and apes which make us more closely related to other animals in general. In other words, humans in general are still animals underneath. As we evolved over time, our brains developed and became bigger than our previous human ancestors the more we used and made tools to cook, make fire, hunt and survive during the early times. As you see in nature, animals can be seen eating other animals out of survival.
As you're aware everything in nature is based on a food chain A.K.A "eat or be eaten." Every animal including humans are known to be sentient beings which means we all feel pain and are aware of what suffering means. Even plants are subject to pain, just that humans cannot hear it.
Now with modern life, there has been more technology and what with the internet becoming more prevalent, people are alarmingly becoming more aware of their own meaningless existence, especially cause you're born to die in the first place.
Especially when you think about it, the more you end up realizing the world doesn't care about you. Nature doesn't care about you. Biology doesn't care about you. The same goes for animals. Your biology, your DNA doesn't care about you. It doesn't care whether you have depression, whether you're happy, or if you're sad. All it cares about is replicating itself, regardless of your mental health. Life itself only cares about replicating itself, regardless of the horrors of life.
If life was wonderful, you wouldn't have to constantly distract yourself with movies, music, studying until your death. You wouldn't have to escape from the horrors of life if "life was beautiful."
On top of that, society doesn't care about your mental health as it deems suicide as taboo and goes the extra work to make sure you don't succeed or in other cases, makes it more difficult to succeed. This goes to show that life is indeed suffering. As long as you exist, you are guaranteed to suffer in some form or another. Non-existent beings do not suffer as they do not exist.
Thus, procreating is immoral as you are gambling with another person's life and they cannot consent to their own birth. When you're creating another person, you are subjecting it to the fate of death as all existing beings go through death ("born to die") when non-existent beings do not need to. You are creating needs/desires when it didn't have any in the first place.
*This will be my last thread post until my Goodbye thread post. Until then, peace xoxo ❤
As you're aware everything in nature is based on a food chain A.K.A "eat or be eaten." Every animal including humans are known to be sentient beings which means we all feel pain and are aware of what suffering means. Even plants are subject to pain, just that humans cannot hear it.
Now with modern life, there has been more technology and what with the internet becoming more prevalent, people are alarmingly becoming more aware of their own meaningless existence, especially cause you're born to die in the first place.
Especially when you think about it, the more you end up realizing the world doesn't care about you. Nature doesn't care about you. Biology doesn't care about you. The same goes for animals. Your biology, your DNA doesn't care about you. It doesn't care whether you have depression, whether you're happy, or if you're sad. All it cares about is replicating itself, regardless of your mental health. Life itself only cares about replicating itself, regardless of the horrors of life.
If life was wonderful, you wouldn't have to constantly distract yourself with movies, music, studying until your death. You wouldn't have to escape from the horrors of life if "life was beautiful."
On top of that, society doesn't care about your mental health as it deems suicide as taboo and goes the extra work to make sure you don't succeed or in other cases, makes it more difficult to succeed. This goes to show that life is indeed suffering. As long as you exist, you are guaranteed to suffer in some form or another. Non-existent beings do not suffer as they do not exist.
Thus, procreating is immoral as you are gambling with another person's life and they cannot consent to their own birth. When you're creating another person, you are subjecting it to the fate of death as all existing beings go through death ("born to die") when non-existent beings do not need to. You are creating needs/desires when it didn't have any in the first place.
*This will be my last thread post until my Goodbye thread post. Until then, peace xoxo ❤
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