Quote from: Verbatim on April 20, 2015, 02:45:40 PMOh, and I'd just like to thank you, Sandtrap, for not only having the patience to take a discussion like this seriously, but for presenting a wonderful example of how to converse with me. Not through slander or insults, but through rational insight. Thank you for that.Suck a dick faggot
Oh, and I'd just like to thank you, Sandtrap, for not only having the patience to take a discussion like this seriously, but for presenting a wonderful example of how to converse with me. Not through slander or insults, but through rational insight. Thank you for that.
Quote from: Mr Psychologist on April 20, 2015, 11:43:19 AMSo are you saying your opinion on life in general is different in some way? Or are you just assuming that my opinion on life only extends to myself? You can't have it both ways there.For one, my opinions on how I live my life vary significantly from how I view life in general or the lives of others.Same here. This is the philosophy. It's not a discussion of our individual lives. That's anecdotal and generally useless. The philosophy is about the human condition as a whole. It's not a personal decision not to have kids--it's the logical statement that having children is wrong.
So are you saying your opinion on life in general is different in some way? Or are you just assuming that my opinion on life only extends to myself? You can't have it both ways there.For one, my opinions on how I live my life vary significantly from how I view life in general or the lives of others.
QuoteOf course because the idea that an entire species will voluntarily wipe itself out is equatable to the prospect of treating all men equally. http://sep7agon.net/index.php?topic=34821.0
Of course because the idea that an entire species will voluntarily wipe itself out is equatable to the prospect of treating all men equally.
Yes, it is equatable. PERFECTLY equatable. But only in the sense that they both represent a VAST and controversial outlook on life. Yes, the idea of freeing the slaves used to be extremely controversial. Just as the notion of voluntary human extinction is today. The fact that you think I'm trying to say that slavery = natalism is so obnoxiously fucking stupid.
QuoteImposing something that can be taken away easily is hardly that great of an imposition, if someone grows up to find themselves wishing they were never born and that said thoughts aren't simply the result of mental illness then they can always find a way to exit this plane of existence. Fuck. You.I've had this fucking argument so many goddamn times, and you're going to pull this WEAK shit.
Imposing something that can be taken away easily is hardly that great of an imposition, if someone grows up to find themselves wishing they were never born and that said thoughts aren't simply the result of mental illness then they can always find a way to exit this plane of existence.
No, suicide is not an easy option, you dumb CUNT. By the time people can even make the rational decision to kill themselves, they've already likely grown highly attached to everyone in their lives, and even though they want to kill themselves, now they have a ton of pressure to live, simply because it would be a goddamn tragedy. It would fuck up the lives of everyone who cared about them. So no, it's not an easy fucking option.
Not to mention, euthanasia is ILLEGAL basically everywhere. You can't just walk into a clinic and ask for suicide pills, it doesn't fucking work like that.
People resort to gruesome, grotesque, painful, inhumane methods when they could instead opt for a graceful exit. Except the state won't allow for it. So we have all these fucking hoops we have to jump over. And for you to be this moderator of a forum, standing above everyone else, being this "model citizen" of the forum, and this is the shit you SPEW on the fucking Internet? "Don't like life? Just kill yourself. It's that easy."
Fuck you, you glib cunt. FUCK you.
QuoteImpose, read the second definition. A clear discussion about antinatalism is fine, it's whenever you drag it up in unrelated topics that it becomes tiresome. That is banging on about it.Abortion is huge. Of COURSE my CORE FUCKING PHILOSOPHICAL BELIEF is going to be brought up.Get the FUCK over it.
Impose, read the second definition. A clear discussion about antinatalism is fine, it's whenever you drag it up in unrelated topics that it becomes tiresome. That is banging on about it.
QuoteWell duh, it doesn't shove you back up into your mother's wombAnd unless it does that, suicide isn't a good option. It doesn't solve the problem. At all.At.All.
Well duh, it doesn't shove you back up into your mother's womb
A slave who commits suicide will never end slavery. You can't end slavery if you're fucking DEAD.
QuoteIt's not slander, it's an accurate label.Then "worthless cunt" would be an accurate label for you.
It's not slander, it's an accurate label.
QuoteA set of beliefs that is firmly entrenched in an individual who will not accept any flaws pointed out or concede them, you don't believe they are flaws so you don't see them as flaws. That's dogmatic.There is a nice easy litmus test for this though.1. Do you think your philosophy is correct?2. Why do you think it is correct?3. Do you think it could be wrong?4. If not, why not?1. Yes, obviously. I wouldn't fucking believe in it if I thought it was wrong, would I? Could you be more inarticulate?2. Because I have been presented with no better alternatives.3. It's possible. Hence why I have discussions.4. If I didn't think I could be wrong, I would never have discussions about it.Why would I waste time trying to prove people wrong if I knew that I was right?
A set of beliefs that is firmly entrenched in an individual who will not accept any flaws pointed out or concede them, you don't believe they are flaws so you don't see them as flaws. That's dogmatic.There is a nice easy litmus test for this though.1. Do you think your philosophy is correct?2. Why do you think it is correct?3. Do you think it could be wrong?4. If not, why not?
Quote from: Mr Psychologist on April 20, 2015, 11:43:19 AMby the way, way to blame me for bringing the subject up when it actually wasn't me at alli stated my opinion on the subject, which indeed was rooted in my philosophy, because why the fuck wouldn't it beand then people started asking me questions about itso i answered themwhich sort of requires that i bring up anti-natalismyou're basically telling me that i should have never stated my opinion in this threadto which i say, go fuck yourself, you totalitarian piece of shit
you're basically telling me that i should have never stated my opinion in this threadto which i say, go fuck yourself, you totalitarian piece of shit
I know Verb enjoys insulting my so called "pseudo buddhist" outlook.
Quote from: Sandtrap on April 20, 2015, 01:14:46 AMI know Verb enjoys insulting my so called "pseudo buddhist" outlook. Pretty sure that's actually me.
But in the past I do remember Verb openly being insulting about my particular outlook as well.
What I'd like to see from you is an attempt to justify childbirth. Why should the species to continue? What great purpose do we still need to fulfill here on Earth? And why can't that purpose be to quietly subside?
Quote from: Sandtrap on April 20, 2015, 05:29:53 PMBut in the past I do remember Verb openly being insulting about my particular outlook as well.Looks like your philosophy doesn't play well with empiricism or sceptical pessimism, then.
im a communist
Quote from: the boat ECKS two on April 19, 2015, 08:54:13 PMMeh... I've seen things die before.Stepping on ants doesn't count.
Meh... I've seen things die before.
Which is reasonable, and I'm all for that. But here's the thing--the idea of choosing not to have children is actually becoming a pretty widespread personal decision in the first world. The nations that are reproducing the very most also happen to be the ones that are the biggest shitholes on the planet, and they are reproducing extremely rapidly. In the first world, the average couple is actually not having enough children to sustain the human race. You basically need to have more than one child in order to that, obviously. The people who are imposing the most also happen to be the dumbest and poorest people on the planet.I'm sure you probably wouldn't like being born in India, or Bangladesh, or some other developing country.
Touching the bark on trees is a little bit too niche of an interest--are you sure it's really the feel of the bark on your fingertips that you like, or something else about it? Either way, I could just make the argument from there that we're basically imposing life so that we can... what, feel trees? Is that worth it? Hmm...
What you said earlier, however, is a pretty good point--we can certainly take measures to improve the human condition, but ultimately, I just don't think we really have any grand purpose to fulfill. You say it would be an insult to our ancestors--our ancestors were irrational in the sense that they were all religious nuts who thought we WERE doing something on this planet. That we're REALLY going somewhere. And we're not, in my opinion.
the one true God is Doctor Doom and we should all be worshiping him.
But I'm on fucking Chemo. You got one of my previous messages. If I said "Fuck it I quit." Then I'd be a selfish for abusing and ignoring what I still have.
A logical statement by tenuous means, sure.
Make whatever analogies you please but choosing absurd ones or incomparable ones doesn't help your argument as much as you think it does.
That fact that you think that's what I'm getting at is rather amusing, my point was that you drew a silly analogy when a more suitable one would have sufficed instead of something that's bordering on an appeal to emotions.
No fucking shit, talk about preaching to the choir there. People who make the decision to end their lives are either A) Mentally Ill or B) Have a set of life circumstances that causes them to make said decision, either to escape shame or debt or whatever myriad cause it can be.
My point there was that no person of sound mind is going to want to kill themselves simply because they hate the fact that they were born, if they do then there is something wrong with their psychology and they need treatment.
People who wish to end their lives must be of a sound mind and not afflicted with delusions or mental illness.
Hating the idea that they were born without consent isn't sufficient grounds to end your life unless they have another affliction that is tainting their mind.
Nice to see your reading comprehension goes down as your blood pressure goes up. To spell it out, read the above again.
QuoteOh, and I'd just like to thank you, Sandtrap, for not only having the patience to take a discussion like this seriously, but for presenting a wonderful example of how to converse with me. Not through slander or insults, but through rational insight. Thank you for that.The irony is delicious
You act like there is something I need to get over here
Again with the platinum mad, this is really rather tiresome.
Once again getting too wound up over some simple questions, the purpose isn't to determine whether you believe what you spout which you clearly do, but to follow through with the logic of whether you question your own beliefs, which thankfully you claim to do so.
Anyway, good lord you get so emotional over a simple discussion on a forum.
Once more for highlighting itHypocrisy stage 1Quote from: Verbatim on April 20, 2015, 01:37:58 PMQuote from: Mr Psychologist on April 20, 2015, 11:43:19 AMby the way, way to blame me for bringing the subject up when it actually wasn't me at alli stated my opinion on the subject, which indeed was rooted in my philosophy, because why the fuck wouldn't it beand then people started asking me questions about itso i answered themwhich sort of requires that i bring up anti-natalismyou're basically telling me that i should have never stated my opinion in this threadto which i say, go fuck yourself, you totalitarian piece of shitHypocrisy stage 2Quote from: Verbatim on April 20, 2015, 02:45:40 PMOh, and I'd just like to thank you, Sandtrap, for not only having the patience to take a discussion like this seriously, but for presenting a wonderful example of how to converse with me. Not through slander or insults, but through rational insight. Thank you for that.
My original query with you was regarding your apparently dour view of the lives of the disabled to which you of course started on about anti-natalism, hence this little chitchat.
BTFO
Let us now discuss how much ass Dr. Mentalist kicked in this thread.