Maybe Rather Than Something Being Wrong With Me, There Is Something Wrong With Life

Someone wishing they were never born could indicate that there is something wrong with life rather than that individual. Someone who doesn't have anything wrong with them can recognize that life creates unnecessary suffering and conclude that never coming into existence is preferable.

We Can Have Concern For Potential Beings Even Though They Don't Exist

The fact that potential beings don’t exist doesn't mean that we can't imagine what it would be like if they did exist and allow that to affect our actions—like whether or not we reproduce.

Saying you can't worry about potential beings because they don't exist is like saying you can't worry about wearing a seat belt because the car crash doesn't exist.

A Reply To The Invitation To Participate In The Game Of Life

Translation of humans’ communication with each other: “C’mon, play the game [of life].”
My reply: "No, the game is abhorrent."

Description Of Life On Earth

How i describe life on earth before humans: situation fucked up; how i describe life on earth with the addition of humans: situation fucked up even more fucked up.

Courage To Fight Against Life

I don’t want the courage to fight to survive and be successful in life; instead, i want the courage to rebel against life even if by doing so i suffer more or die sooner.

By Creating Sentient Beings You Cause Them Harm Even If You Try To Help Them As Best As You Can

You might attempt to justify creating sentient beings (e.g., having children, breeding animals) by saying that you will do everything in your power to help them. The problem with this way of thinking is that no matter how hard you try to help them, they will still be harmed—significantly—maybe even immensely. The only way to truly protect them is to not create them.

Desentientize/Deconsciousize: Expansion Of The Term 'Dehumanize'

I think the term dehumanize should be replaced with the terms desentientize and/or deconsciousize because these terms are not limited to one species; they include all sentient and conscious beings.

I am against desentientizing and deconsciousizing due to the fact that even if Being A isn't aware that it's causing Being B to suffer, that doesn't mean that Being B isn't suffering. The ignorance of a great white shark concerning the pain it's inflicting on a seal when it's tearing it apart doesn't mean that the seal isn't feeling pain. Even if a human who inserts a permanent catheter into a bear’s gall bladder and extracts bile from it, with no pain relief, for the rest of the bear’s life, while keeping it in a small cage, doesn't recognize that the bear can feel pain, that doesn't mean that the bear isn't experiencing extreme, chronic pain.

How To Not Become Your Parents

Avoid becoming your parents by not becoming parents yourselves.

Your Body Doesn't Take Care Of You

Our bodies are vehicles for genes. Genes survive by being copied to a new vehicle via reproduction. We have drives that promote survival and reproduction because this happens to be a successful way for genes to get passed on. But it's not as though genes consciously try to perpetuate themselves; it's just that some methods are more effective than others at propagating genes, so genes that are in vehicles with more effective methods are more likely get passed on than genes in vehicles with less effective methods.

This results in organisms that are driven to survive and reproduce, not organisms that are made to be happy. Nature doesn't care whether or not you are happy; nature doesn't care about anything.

You Can't Improve Upon The Perfection Of Nonexistence

It's impossible to improve upon perfection. Nonexistence is perfection. Existence in any form has always been and always will be imperfect.

More Important Things Than Happiness

Letting you know about the suffering in the world upsets you? Maybe the suffering you are inflicting, either directly or indirectly, upsets the sentient beings who experience that suffering.

Your ignorant "bliss" comes at a terrible cost: the suffering of other animals. (I say other animals because you yourself are an animal.)

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What would a consciousness that was not connected to a body that has drives to survive and reproduce no matter what the costs causing it to have a distorted view of reality do?

Life—An Unnecessary Evil

Life is not necessary; thus, there are no necessary evils. You cannot justify causing suffering by saying that it is necessary to survive, thrive, get by, get ahead, advance, progress, win, conquer, or prevail because none of those things are necessary.

You Can Hate Something But Still Care About Its Welfare

Hating something doesn’t necessarily mean that you want harm to come upon it. One could be misanthropic but still not want people to suffer. You can care about something’s welfare even if you don’t like it. Conversely, you can love something and not care about its welfare.

I Only Have One Dream

What are you supposed to do if you don’t have any dreams, passions, desires, aspirations, etc? What if you do have desires but you don’t like what it requires to pursue them, e.g., harming others, harming yourself, being phony?

My only dream is that the extinction of all life comes sooner rather than later in the least painful way possible.

My Opinion Of Life

Life is bad. You can’t do anything you put your mind to. You will die. Life is pointless. It is an unnecessary struggle. People deceive themselves and others constantly. You will be pressured by your own brain and others to fake it to make it. If you don’t do what your parents, spouse, boss, etc. want you to do they will guilt-trip, criticize, pester, hate, leave, ignore, fire you, be heartbroken, offended, angered by your behavior. Horrible things could happen at any moment; things that would bring you unimaginable pain, physical or mental. We are alone. There is no magic. There are no miracles. No supernatural force taking care of you or guiding you. This is a vast, cold, unconscious universe. Living things would be better off going extinct than continuing this nonsense.

Unregretful Failure In The Game Of Life

I don’t care if i’m a failure or a loser in the game of life because i don’t like the game.

You Can Have Values Without Moral Truths

There are no moral facts or truths, but this doesn't mean that you can't have concern for others. Instead of being concerned with whether an act is right or wrong, you can be concerned with whether an act is beneficial or harmful, fair or unfair, truthful or deceptive, etc.

Motivation To Share Antinatalism As A Result Of Empathy

One of my motivations to share antinatalism is the likelihood that there are other people who think and feel similarly to the way that i do who would regret reproducing because of the harm done to their children by being brought into existence and who would not reproduce if they knew about antinatalism.

Another motivation to share antinatalism is that it could prevent beings like me who have an aversion to life and would rather not have been born from ever coming into existence.

Not Reproducing: May Cause Temporary Discomfort But Will Certainly Prevent Future Pain

Suppose you were a slave and you had a slave owner who would treat you somewhat decently if you bred him slaves but would treat you very poorly for the rest of your life if you refused to breed. Would you breed just so you could be somewhat comfortable, or would you refuse to breed so that you could spare your possible offspring from being slaves?

                 

This is an analogy for life. You are under the influence of numerous forces, many of which can put pressure on you to breed (e.g., genes, the way your brain is wired, neurotransmitters, hormones, impulses, partners, family members, friends, your ethnic group, culture, religion, corporations, the government, society). If you breed, you might be more content because you will have given into this pressure but you will have also created slaves. If you refuse to breed, you might increase your own suffering because the pressure to breed will not have been relieved but you will have avoided creating slaves.

Not having offspring might reduce your well-being, but it also allows you to avoid bringing new beings into existence that would inevitably suffer. You have to decide what is more important to you: your well-being or sparing your possible offspring the burden of existence.