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Hello, I've been reading through posts from this community for the past few months. While I do not personally agree with antinatalism, i try to keep an open mind and would love to understand more about your perspectives. I 100% respect your worldviews and have no intention to argue with you in your space.
Forgive me if these questions come off as uninformed or presumptive, I do not understand your perspectives as well as you do and if im asking the wrong types of questions that's just an opportunity to learn. Im sure not everyone here has the exact same positions on everything, so don't feel obligated to answer any of the questions that don't apply to you. Thank you to anyone who spares the time to let me know their opinions!
My questions:
When it comes to the positive aspects of life, do they hold no amount of inherent value whatsoever, or are they so immensely outweighed by any amount of suffering that positive aspects to life are irrelevant?
If you don't fall into either of those camps, do you think that it is possible for a conscious being to have an overall "justified” lifetime experience (where the “positives” outweigh the negatives?)
Do you think existence itself is inherently wrong/not worth it, regardless how any specific conscious experience plays out, it will always be inherently and insurmountably negative, or is your position the result of a more macro-scale assessment of the world as a whole, that there too much suffering compared to “non-suffering/positive” experiences, and thus the totality is what makes continued reproduction unjustifiable?
If its the latter - Is this a fixable problem, (i.e. making the world a better place could justify reproduction or is this inherent to the universe we live in?
Do you think antinatalist practices should apply to animals as well? If we could somehow prevent new animals capable of experiencing suffering from being born without causing harm to currently living animals, would you be in favor of doing so?
I could come up with more questions but who knows if anyone will read or respond. Thank you again for your time and patience!