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“To come back to anti-natalist themes, I would say that if you are sufficiently deluded that you create new beings into existence, you're doing a lot of harm in the process. Instead of opting for delusions, I would suggest that one should create coping mechanisms of another kind.”
David Benatar, Conversations about the Meaning of Life

Thomas Ligotti
“For the past few slivers of human history, those of us living in what has been deemed the free world have been allowed to hold disparate worldviews, but only on the condition that they affirm, directly or indirectly, the survival of the species. They must not be pessimistic, nihilistic, or in any respect skeptical about the livability of human life. Such perspectives might well be valued by outsiders, but insiders, who form the preponderant division of humankind, will not incorporate the outsider’s stark attitudes and unhappy endings into their philosophies, ideologies, national policies, or fraternal bylaws.”
Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

“The answer is not to make more humans. Once you believe this whole thing is ultimately pointless, it is ridiculous to generate more adversity-facing meaning seekers.”
David Benatar, Conversations about the Meaning of Life

Michel Houellebecq
“Moments happen or don’t happen, people’s lives are altered and sometimes destroyed by them, and what can one say? What can one do? Apparently nothing.”
Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

Édouard Levé
“You did not have children. Your wife had asked you if you wanted any. You didn’t feel ready yet, and you didn’t know if you ever would be. To procreate was such an important and such a mysterious act that you did not believe yourself capable of doing it wisely. You had to accept not being able to measure up to your capacity to transmit life. You did not think that, when they conceived you, your parents were any more reasonable than you currently were. Guessing at the selfishness and the levity of their decision distressed you.”
Édouard Levé, Suicide

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