• BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    You call it pessimism, I call it realism.

    There are good things to experience, yes. If you’re already alive, then by all means, seek to find happiness and enjoyment. Don’t force someone else into that endless struggle. You can make no guarantees that their life won’t be one of pure suffering, and that’s not a risk I’m willing to take.

    And again, we are destroying this planet - not just for us, but for all life on it. We are the problem.

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      9 months ago

      You call it pessimism, I call it realism.

      Says every person with depression ever.

      I agree with the other commenter recommending therapy. When you don’t see it as “life is pain and the future is hopeless”, you might sound less like a scifi villain calling for human extinction.

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        9 months ago

        “Existence is suffering” is a foundational tenet for many worldviews and religions, not just antinatalism. Existence is literally the first cause to all suffering - no existence, no suffering.

        Acknowledging that doesn’t make me depressed or pessimistic, it’s just acceptance how things are.

        You’re free to live in whatever fantasy you want, though. That’s your right.

        Also, responding to differing worldviews with “get help” is generally bad form

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          9 months ago

          Your worldview is literally calling for the extinction of all humans. You need to come back to reality and stop convincing yourself that this is normal or healthy.

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            9 months ago

            Yes, it is. And I’m just fine, I prefer not to live in idealistic delusion

            Maybe educate yourself on the actual philosophy

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              9 months ago

              Ah, yes the classic “everyone else who doesn’t subscribe is deluded” echochamber red flag.

              “Voluntary Extinction” is right up there with “flat earthers” and “anti-vax” as the dumbest pseudo-intellectual things I’ve read on the internet.