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There was a user that, before getting banned, declared that every single living human being alive on Earth right now should not exist because no one had the benefit of a pre-conception device on hand to somehow determine each individual's consent to exist before they started to exist.
I don't know if that take would make David Benatar blush, make David Benatar cackle with glee, or if that was posted by David Benatar himself.
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There was a user that, before getting banned, declared that every single living human being alive on Earth right now should not exist because no one had the benefit of a pre-conception device on hand to somehow determine each individual's consent to exist before they started to exist.
I mean, is this an uncommon thought? Isn't that what Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is about, for example?
Whether it is uncommon or not, demanding that people obtain the consent of a nonexistent entity in order to create life is at best ontologically confused and at worst deeply hostile
Sort of, though in Frankenstein's creation's case, the cruelty and hostility the creation immediately experienced after being created was the point (and, possibly, the creation's own tendencies baked in by the creator's haphazard work), not that life itself was (presumably) so fundamentally cruel by definition that life itself was the issue.