• Arkaelus@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      The world as it is now, yes. But this is far from the only option, thus the world is not an inevitable soup of suffering. So, no.

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        6 months ago

        Unless you’re both an antinatalist and a philosophical pessimist and believe that the world will always be that soup. But yeah, that’s not the case for all antinatalists. A friend of mine calls himself a “temporary antinatalist”.

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          6 months ago

          True. I guess the distinction, though semantically redundant, seems to be contextually necessary nowadays…