• ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed
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    544 days ago

    To be able to make such choice implies that I already exist in some form.

    And I’d probably be too afraid of non-existence to choose not being born.

    Life sucks, but I also don’t want to “not-exist”. Its terrifying.

    Can I just be a ghost floating around and just “chill” and observe? Perhaps in the company of other ghosts to talk to…

      • @baldingpudenda
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        144 days ago

        Yeah, I didn’t exist for billions of years and I’m fine…ish. idk what happens after though

        • @NegativeInf
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          124 days ago

          Same thing that happened before. You were fine with not existing before hand.

  • Johannes Jacobs
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    164 days ago

    No. And thats the reason i don’t have kids.

    Humanity is rotten, and personally i don’t think we’ll ever change. The best thing that can happen to earth is for humanity to collapse and become extinct.

  • Mr Fish
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    204 days ago

    Absolutely.

    A. Even with how shit the world is there’s enough good that exists for it to be worth it.

    B. If I didn’t exist, I would never have a chance to help improve the world in my small way.

  • @[email protected]
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    23 days ago

    Like, now? No way. I would choose to continue my unborn existence. However, if I could choose a time period, that would be a different story.

  • megane-kun
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    114 days ago

    I’m echoing a lot of the replies here by saying “No.” Even if I’m given a choice as to what kind of life I’d live, still no.

    Even if people say there’s a lot of good things in life, or that there are people living their dreams in this world, still no. I don’t play the lottery, even if I might end up with more money than I could ever hope to spend. The same logic applies here.

    There would be no me to regret not existing if I don’t exist.

  • @[email protected]
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    23 days ago

    Maybe if I had the choice of where and when to be born. Much too risky to leave it up to chance though

  • @[email protected]
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    94 days ago

    Even if my life currently is not bad, there are and have been bad times. Not existing is never bad. So no.

    • Electric_Druid
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      44 days ago

      Not existing is neither bad nor good, existence is the experience of both good and bad things. Don’t only focus on the bad ones.

  • @[email protected]
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    3 days ago

    I lean no, but it’s close. On the one hand, life is meaningless and hurts. On the other I’ve gotten to see some cool things.

  • @Etterra
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    84 days ago

    Oh fuck no. For my entire life I’ve resented having to be alive. You try being a suicidally inclined 7 year old and see how you like it. The fact that it’s impossible to ask someone if they want to be born is enough for me to never want to have kids, always had been. Forcing existence and cognizance on a human being is unspeakably fucking cruel.

  • @Godthrilla
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    I mean, the universe is just an experiment in experience. Even with the bullshit, it’s better to have been than to never have been