Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy

• JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I would personally have chosen No, and it’s a big reason why I’m not going to have a kid. Very grateful that my wife agrees

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• Carnelian@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  only while the kids exist as you forced them into existence

  Many parents have the same realization about their adopted children. You could argue that both types of parents are delusional but the causality isn’t relevant

  imagine you could see your entire life

  The capacity for imagining your whole life presupposes that you have already begun living, silly :3 but okay. Why would this primordial spirit be interested in life at all if it’s optional? Is living your life inherently worth considering, or something?

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  • baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    choosing to take on the responsibility is the same imo

    biological kid or not once you bring it home it’s then the same, feeling this for random strangers would be odd

    acknowledging that a optional life would be skipped kinda is my point

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    • Carnelian@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Okay, so it is possible to find inherent meaning in lives you did not create. Yay!

      For part 2, you’re ignoring my question.

      Why would your thought experiment ghost even be considering life? Even before the point of knowing whether it would be “good or bad”. Why does it bother checking that at all?

      Put another way: when some dumb loser asks if I want to invest in an NFT, I don’t even need to consider that. I know inherently that what I’m being offered is fundamentally without value to anyone.

      The fact that you are evaluating your life at all in your thought experiment implies that the thing you are being offered has the potential to be valuable, yes?

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      • baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Okay, so it is possible to find inherent meaning in lives you did not create. Yay!

        except predication of choice makes it literally not inherent

        neither does potential imply inherent either

        it’s trivial to imagine simple real world examples that would make any positive aspect of living rather insufficient to the point where dying young and unexpectedly is almost a blessing among alternatives

        if aggressive cancer, long lasting stroke or alzheimer’s is in my future let me die sooner in my sleep

        to say nothing of famine, massive drought and war

        if i knew i’d live to experience alzheimer’s let me never be born

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