What is the most common sexually-transmitted disease?
Birth. — Michael Ossipoff
However, not having new humans eliminates this dilemma of being forced into working for others demands (and vice versa). Thus antinatalism prevents people from having to work. No need for need if there is no one to need. — schopenhauer1
I'm a dumb male, so I usually create more work for myself. I think I'm doing it wrong. — Buxtebuddha
You work for someone else's needs, someone else works for your needs. That's how life works, from bacteria up to Schopenhauer. — Bitter Crank
People would like working for each other's needs more if we could get rid of the invisible hand in the iron glove concealed in an economics textbook. — Bitter Crank
As for your solution, it's a "one solution to all problems" solution, no matter what the problem is. "Let's all just die out and then every problem will be resolved by our absence. Except, of course, the problem that this creates for those who rather liked being alive -- despite all the deplorably dangerous disasters to which we are positively prone. Nobody thinks it's a perfect world, but a lot of people like it, and your "reprehensible reproduction rigamarole" just isn't appealing to most people. — Bitter Crank
What is the most common sexually-transmitted disease?
Birth. — Michael Ossipoff
Creating work for people is much different than making people work. In an ideal socialistic => anarchistic society, work is not "negative", at least not any more negative than anything else. It's not something you're "enslaved" to. You work and enjoy the work, instead of being completely exhausted by it. — darthbarracuda
I just don't see it. Work for what? Sustaining oneself, to work, to sustain, to work, to sustain. We are tragically too self-aware for this scheme- anarchic, communist, mixed economy, capitalist, what have you. — schopenhauer1
What is it they like so much? All this energy leading to disappointment, suffering harm.. All for a bit of pleasure. What a short-sighted vision this happiness principle is. — schopenhauer1
This is pretty pitiful. Sorry, I don't mean to be disrespectful, but his is so hideously self-indulgent. Intellectually dishonest. — T Clark
Watching movies with a deep or ambiguous messages, and unique cinematography, or spending an hour listening to a classical piece, is too hard for the working class. — darthbarracuda
People would like working for each other's needs more if we could get rid of the invisible hand in the iron glove concealed in an economics textbook. — Bitter Crank
How so? — schopenhauer1
Except where we volunteer our labor because we value the cause, and a scattering of paid jobs which happen to be human, we do not know what unalienated work feels like. But, most of us have had at least a taste of good work, and it tastes good. — Bitter Crank
Work is good, thus antinatalism is bad since it prevents a good.Thus antinatalism prevents people from having to work. No need for need if there is no one to need. — schopenhauer1
Work is good, thus antinatalism is bad since it prevents a good. — Agustino
I didn't say making others work, I said work itself is good. Forcing someone to work (like the Nazis did in concentration camps) is not good.How is making others work good in and of itself other than appeal to some arbitrary divine command theory? It's only good in a hypothetical imperative. — schopenhauer1
I didn't say making others work, I said work itself is good. Forcing someone to work (like the Nazis did in concentration camps) is not good. — Agustino
Boring.By having people, how is that not forcing them to work de facto? I mean sure, they can always go against their instincts to live, especially when enculturated for a lifetime in a social setting, but that's not going to happen for the majority except the practically non-existent suicidal hermit-ascetic. — schopenhauer1
Boring.
Simply because there are distinctions between forcing someone and not forcing someone. If I don't put a gun to their head, or take a whip and threaten to whip them if they don't work, then I'm not forcing them. — Agustino
Sure, I don't see that it's a problem. Again, work is good. I'm not putting a gun to their head to work. So I'm not forcing them to do anything. I cannot force someone who doesn't yet exist.I don't think so. It's pretty basic that by having a child, that child is going to have to find a way to maintain its survival in a social setting- aka work. It is not like it is so far removed- it is very much wrapped into what it means for the child to live its life out. — schopenhauer1
I'm not putting a gun to their head to work. So I'm not forcing them to do anything. I cannot force someone who doesn't yet exist. — Agustino
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