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[โ€“] [email protected] 71 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Antinatalism is the first law of robotics, reduced to absurdity. It answers the question by forgetting why you asked it in the first place.

Yes, it does eliminate human suffering. However, it does so in the same way that a bullet to the head cures a headache.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Yeah, a nuclear exchange would be a faster way of achieving what antinatalists would achieve if they got their way.