Conundrum's video: The Uncompensated Harms Argument for Antinatalism

A presentation of an interesting argument for antinatalism based on Schopenhauer's recognition that life's harm go uncompensated. Because it's wrong to create conditions where someone is being harmed without compensation and the pessimistic view that most harms are not being compensated, we're led to the conclusion that procreation is wrong. Full text on my blog: https://figmentsofspeculation.wordpress.com/2021/10/15/the-uncompensated-harms-argument-for-antinatalism/ Connect with me to stay in touch: Twitter: https://twitter.com/WackyConundrum And check out my blog "Figments of Speculation": https://figmentsofspeculation.wordpress.com REFERENCES Simmons, Byron (2021). A thousand pleasures are not worth a single pain: The compensation argument for Schopenhauer’s pessimism. European Journal of Philosophy, 29(1), 120-136. DOI: 10.1111/ejop.12561. https://sci-hub.se/10.1111/ejop.12561 TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Introduction 00:59 Moral intuitions 01:34 The anthropocentric argument 02:37 The pessimistic premise 06:07 A note on the no-harmful-condition premise 06:50 Potential objections 10:54 The general argument TAGS