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#473 - Tom Van Der Linden - Finding Heroic Meaning In Modern Life
Modern Wisdom
Do You Think It's Bad to Bring Children Into the World?
i didn't realize that that was part of the myth of sisyphus, that, well, hang on. You can say that a life of almost endless suffering, which it isn't, likes its small amounts of suffering and small amounts of pleasure. But even a life with an entirety of suffering with mall amount of pleasure in it, at some point, consciously, does that cash out at being better than annihilation or non existence over all? I would be tempted, the non nihilist in the room was tempted to say yes. It kind of seems like the same thing there. And i don't think that a lot of people who believe that we should not bring children into the world
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