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“I think it a valid hypothesis that poverty is actually dreadfully painful -not only physically, but emotionally and socially.
There is only so much pain we can expect a being to endure before his attempts to relieve it through future-damaging means become perfectly understandable and, in fact, rational.”
― Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
There is only so much pain we can expect a being to endure before his attempts to relieve it through future-damaging means become perfectly understandable and, in fact, rational.”
― Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
“I have often moralized on the repulsive form charity always assumes! Here was a home for deserving women and yet what a mockery the name was. The floor was bare, and the little wooden tables were sublimely ignorant of such modern beautifiers as varnish, polish and table-covers.”
― Ten Days in a Mad-House
― Ten Days in a Mad-House
“Children, now being very costly to raise, no longer provide a financial benefit to their parents. So children must instead provide meaning to make up for the missing material benefits. Having children is also, for the first time in human experience, genuinely a choice rather than a matter of course or providence. This choice must be justified, as it did not have to be in the past.”
― Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
― Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
“Human morality, some may argue, applies only to human actions - not to the actions of animals. I agree with this. [...] However, morality must certainly apply to human inaction, and especially our inaction in preventing harm, suffering, and awfulness. What is the moral justification for the "hands off " dogma regarding nature? We often interfere with nature for the good of humans and human industry. Why not for the good of individual animals? Bloody Nature is a machine for pushing genes into the future. Does it really "know best"?”
― Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
― Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
“Not many people commit suicide, but many people act as if their lives are not very valuable to them. They risk actual death or social death by gambling their present circumstances on a small chance of future payoff, in a manner that is not actuarially sound. They choose, with their economic decisions, to believe in a counterfactual world, indicating dissatisfaction with the real world. They palliate present suffering in a manner that harms future prospects. This gamble/palliate behavior [...] indicates that, rather than valuing life as a precious gift, people frequently treat life as having a zero or negative value with their actual actions.”
― Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
― Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
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