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rakhlee

I wrote this for some reason

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Any fuck who wants a baby to be forcefully born, is selfish.

Capitalism has ruined our lives, our sanity, and our freedom. Being tied to a 9-5 job is not freedom. Being literally forced to pay your bills or you will die is not freedom. Being told you must conform to our image is not freedom. Being told what you can and cannot do in a meaningless universe where everything is both possible and impossible at the same time is, not freedom.

The babies above look at us and say "holy God, thank you for we weren't born". The sum of all human existence is pain and suffering. At this rate, with how humanity is growing, we either kill ourselves off from rapid climate change, or we nuke ourselves back to the stone age. Either way, we will cease to exist. Our children, what's left of them, will be replaced by a new species that won't make the same mistakes we did... Or do them; it don't matter. Eventually, what we do or don't do, won't make a difference. We will be replaced, one way or another.

Anything we do or don't do is meaningless in an infinite universe where we are nothing but atoms in the vastness of empty space. In billions of years, Earth will be destroyed by the sun. In trillions of years, the last star will die out, and your life and my life will not be even a thought to the universe. The universe was born and the universe will die. And nothing will change that.

You want to bring that pain into their world? You want them to see a life of insignificance; where truth is but a construct, a meaningless tool, we use to feel better about our tiny lives? You want to force our offspring into slavery by the capitalist overlords, who have MORE POWER THAN YOU, make all the decisions; telling you what you can and can't do? What you must and must not? What to believe and want to think? You want to bring all the pain, all the sorrow; all the joys and heartbreaks; all the while, an indifferent universe looks the other way, on a non-existant soul?

YOU WOKE THEM UP FROM THE SLEEP OF NOTHINGNESS. Into a world that doesn't care about them, sees them as cogs in a machine to make money? Money that in millions of years time is but pieces of dust.

That is selfish.

My dissertation on Reddit.

Posted May 4, 2022, 1:56 AM UTC

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