No.305048
I’ve started describing myself as antinatalist, but when I’m honest, it’s not really about humanity as a whole, it’s personal. I don’t feel like my life should have been created, and that distinction matters to me. I’m pro-choice in the broad sense, but that belief also extends inward. I think autonomy shouldn’t stop at birth. For me, it’s less about hating existence and more about questioning why continuing to exist is treated as an unquestionable obligation, even when someone experiences it primarily as pain or burden. I’m curious whether anyone else feels this same disconnect, where the philosophy isn’t abstract or moralistic, but rooted in how you experience your own life.
So I find myself wanting to ask others: do you feel similarly, or is this way of thinking rare? Do you support choice in theory, but also feel trapped by the lack of choice when it comes to your own existence? I’m not looking for encouragement or fixing, just honesty, whether others carry this quiet belief that opting out should be allowed, even if they never act on it. I wonder how many people hold these thoughts privately, afraid to say them out loud because they’re immediately misunderstood as nihilism or despair, rather than a desire for agency and dignity.
No.305049
>>305048Humans will naturally want to live than to die, but of course, we have been granted the intelligence to choose what we want to choose. So, if someone wants to die, no one can really stop them from doing so as it is not against the law. I do think most would see it as fine if the person is experiencing pain, but be confused as to why if the person isn't in pain. Also, religions disapprove of suicide so that is an important factor.