Marcus

“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

“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

“I see no value in my having been depressed…It is a dreadful scourge that has caused me terrible pain…it is a disease no question of that and one, which like all the others, demands to be understood and relieved. Yes, of course I have learned who my true friends are and who can stay by me in my worst times….it does help to know that there are others and that slowly people…are beginning to learn something about it. But it has been around an awfully long time, a lot of people are suffering and it is about bloody time we took it seriously.”
― Anthony Clare, Depression and How to Survive It

“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