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[–] Arkaelus@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The world as it is now, yes. But this is far from the only option, thus the world is not an inevitable soup of suffering. So, no.

[–] Katrisia@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Unless you're both an antinatalist and a philosophical pessimist and believe that the world will always be that soup. But yeah, that's not the case for all antinatalists. A friend of mine calls himself a "temporary antinatalist".

[–] Arkaelus@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

True. I guess the distinction, though semantically redundant, seems to be contextually necessary nowadays...