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Old 01-12-2018   #12
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Re: Anti-Natalism, Can It Really Exist?

Not being a native speaker, i worry if my limited vocabulary adequately expresses my thoughts, but nevertheless:

If the core tenet of AN might be summarized as the prevention of suffering through the cessation of procreation, this would mean, in the abstract, the prevention of a situation or circumstance ( life ) because it implicitly contains a certain circumstance ( in this case a circumstance thought negative - suffering ). This means, however, that all other implicit states or circumstances, thus all potentials in fact, will be equally annihilated along with the potential suffering, including all potentials that may qualify that suffering in any way; including the opposite of suffering by contrast with which suffering may be discerned or measured; including the very things that might give cause to desire the cessation of suffering. So antinatalism, in that way, negates itself in even the theory of applying itself.

So i guess Nemonymous has a point.

"What can a thing do with a thing, when it is a thing?"
-Shaykh Ibn 'Arabi
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