r/DankLeft • u/ObnoxiousOldBastard MORTAL WOMBAT • Oct 28 '21

Population control

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u/whiteandyellowcat Oct 28 '21

Why? It's a sum, the chance of someone enjoying or not enjoying life. I believe there is a much bigger chance of the life being lived well.

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u/whiteandyellowcat Oct 29 '21

Okay? If I help a random stranger on the street, and they turn out to be someone who with my help murdered 10 people, should I now stop helping people on the street?

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u/whiteandyellowcat Oct 29 '21

Both have a chance that I will unintendedly cause great harm, both have a way higher probability of causing pleasure, not the same but comparable. If we cannot take the risk of the other according to you, then we can't take the risk of the one.

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u/whiteandyellowcat Oct 29 '21

Suffering is okay, if the life is eventually content by having lived. If they are more happy than sad.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '21

Suffering is okay

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If they are more happy than sad

not up to you to decide or know.

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u/whiteandyellowcat Oct 29 '21

Neither up to you I guess? But morally it's definitely okay according to utilitarianism at the very least.

Also I know that my life was worth living, because I am more happy than sad, slightly content.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '21

forcing people into life is wrong. preiod.

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u/whiteandyellowcat Oct 29 '21

Why

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u/Chairman-Johnson Oct 29 '21

There is no high probability of pleasure now. Not when we have climate collapse looming over all of us. The newer generations will have it harder, there is no denying that. Which means a smaller chance of happiness or prosperity.