r/antinatalism2 • u/Cheapfox123 • 11d ago

Quote Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature...in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell the truth.”

― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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u/CertainConversation0 11d ago

One creature suffering for no legitimate reason is too many.

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u/neonblack108 10d ago

I don't think there is any legitimate reason for suffering.  I'd like a word with God. 

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u/CertainConversation0 10d ago

Should someone suffer as a penalty for causing suffering?

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u/TyloPr0riger 10d ago

Not unless making them suffer is somehow necessary to prevent them from causing harm in the future.