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Thag one question we all seem to ask ourselves (lemmy.zip)
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[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

All that and much much more yes, but my biggest issue is mortality and getting obliterated when I die. Zero evidence of anything after from the dishonest god copium huffers.

I'm not forcing someone else to live in this pointless tedious abusive hell realm which also has an inescapable expiry date and limited window for life to exist at all only to die. I am not thankful to be alive. My survival instincts force me to continue on until I keel over unwillingly. I resent my parents somewhat, secretly. Although they're not deep thinkers and they''re not capable of it to put it mildly, so I can't really hate them either.

Life is a gift, on the life eats other life alive planet? I think not.

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[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

by cthulhu what the fuck is this ? makes my skin crawl, shiver and fall off

Ah I can't even watch it ! ffs content warning please

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Okay I will, but that only further proves my point that people refuse to accept reality. I thought about posting a Hyena eating a baby alive as it was being born from another herbivore in Africa or another creature getting disembowelled by a crocodile before escaping, dragging its own torn guts along the ground before passing out. I think the warts are less disturbing. God is great.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Frankly I'm fine with guts, but the stuff growing like that awakes a primal fear in me. Call it wartphobia. Thanks for the spoiler tag

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago

That's fair, can't really control a phobia.

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Morally, having a child is indistinguishable from murder.

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 0 points 5 days ago

I agree, it's not a popular view of course but that's never stopped me from holding one.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

While the MAGA dumbfucks have 5 children? Great idea to not let things get better.

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I'm not really about shaming people. I just want to say, "i don't have the urge to have them" and that be sufficient. I don't think I'd turn it around and say the other is dumb or wrong for not understanding on the basis that there are all the problems in the world.

[–] fafferlicious@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

How is it insane to recognize things will never get better if we impose self-extinction?

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have older kids but I still agree with the statement today.

In the before times I agonized about having kids and climate change was my elephant in the room... this global lurch towards fascism wasn't even on my bingo card.

[–] AethiopeRoot@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks for being honest chief 🫡

[–] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago

I don’t judge my parents for having me in ‘96, seemed like a pretty peach time, right after the Soviet union dissolved, before Kip Kinkel and everything after the change of the millennium

Not today

[–] KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm sure this rhetoric was true for people during the civil war, WW1, WW2, mass plagues and other difficult points of history. The fact we are here is because someone believed that things could get better enough to create our ancestors. Not to mention countries get way worse if the birth rate starts to decline too much so that only adds to the problems (see Japan/China/etc).

It's fine to not do it yourself but thank your fortune everyday that someone is willing to.

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If the birth rates decline enough, that would rather be the end of the problems.

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How would that solve the problem of evil people and evil systems?

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because everyone would die and so there wouldn't be anyone to be evil, or to be evil to.

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

oh is your goal everyone dying because that sounds pretty close to evil

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My goal is the minimum suffering across all beings who can suffer across all time. It sounds evil to me to keep people alive just to suffer.

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So then we need to be alive to do things like reduce suffering for future generations unless you plan to extinguish all life so nothing can suffer

[–] what_was_not_said@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It would not be a tragedy for the planet if the human race went extinct. The planet could heal from the damage our species has done.

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago

Technically nothing is a tragedy for the planet and it’s also incapable of being damaged because it’s a nonconscious rock floating in space to which ideological concepts of damage and healing don’t apply

You are simply immature and want all humans to die lmao