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Re: Anti-Natalism, Can It Really Exist?
One thing that concerns me is how someone like Ligotti can believe the following:
(1) Human beings should cease reproducing.
(2) Human beings are biological "puppets" that lack free will.
(1) implies moral agency. But moral agency requires free will on some level to be meaningful. However, (2) precludes the existence of free will.
As someone who is largely sympathetic towards Ligotti's worldview, I can't help but find the above contradiction troubling. Schopenhauer encountered the same contradiction when he was unable to reconcile his "denial of the will to live" with the notion of a metaphysical (unconscious) "will" that determines our actions. A determinist should only be concerned with describing causal relations, not abstract moral philosophies suffused with normative assumptions.
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