Schopenhauer sucks

[Jason Genova]

My main gripe with Schopenhauer's anti-natalist philosophy is that no matter how he dressed it up in turgid prose, it basically amounted to the fact that Schopenhauer himself was personally unhappy with his own life so nobody else should be allowed to have fun, either.

Schopenhauer was too high-IQ for this world, he was bound to be miserable.

INTPs are destined to live a life full of LDARing while the low-sapience extroverts go around making choices purely by animalistic instinct.

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but srs, I don't really know shit about the guy other than he was angry and fucking bald. Despite the other thread I made a few weeks ago I'm not really an anti-natalist, I just think most people would be if they used logic. It's just that giving birth causes suffering via the fact that it's almost certain you will experience suffering in your lifetime. This is also a choice that doesn't give the other party consent. If you agree that A. Causing somebody to experience suffering when they didn't ask you to is immoral and B. Immoral actions should be avoided then having children must be something you shouldn't do. My only point is that most people would agree to A. and B., so logically most people should be against having children. I know that Sam Harris and his small-skulled utilitarian "philosophy" would go against this because happiness = morality and the more happiness there is in the universe the better. Of course a fucking fifth grader could point out that it must then be moral to let a bunch of sadists torture one man because the total amount of happiness being produced outweighs the total amount of suffering. I don't even know which ethical "school" I would belong to, but not Sam Harrisism

 

[DoctorJimmyRay]

I suppose he's somewhat of an acquired taste. I found him to be delightfully melancholic. He's an excellent read, even if just to give Nietzsche a bit of context.

 

[The Great Chandler]

At least the old bastard finally chilled tf out in his last days!