It is quite clear that despite any subjective interpretation of "the worth of my life", objectively this value is little more than nil. Actually, it is nil, if we take seriously the law of conservation of energy which states energy is neither created nor destroyed. So that's the reality of the situation every being,…

Amusing response. If there is such as an instinct to perpetuate, why are birth rates at record lows? The survival "instinct" is no instinct, it is a psychological response(which is why suicide is possible), just as the will to breed is a psychological response. There is no instinct to breed. It is willed. It's not…

Antinatalism has nothing to do with suicide. It't not about killing yourself, it's about not breeding. It's a rationale that explores the futility of sentience in a decaying universe and worlds subject to this decay, and sentience which itself decays, and concluding that there is no need to perpetuate. Perpetuation…

I don't know why people use this term "galactic backwater". Directions like "up" or "down" or "backwater" do not really apply in the freefall of space so there's that. Next, there is nothing in the physical universe that's inconceivable, it is very easy to conceive that 13 billion years is an incredibly long amount of…

A facile comment. Antinatalism is not about suicide nor pleasure.

There is no such thing as survival let alone "graceful survival". Everything that has ever lived and anything that will ever live will die. Human nature and entropy persists as they are. Everything in time will be lost. Either we accept this and make provisions for this to happen to our species on this planet…

There is no such thing as survival. Everything that has ever lived and everything that will ever live will die. Everything is in a constant state of flux. Entropy and human nature persists. Everything in time will be lost. Either it happens gracefully or it doesn't happen gracefully. That is the only real concern and…

This is not "my outlook" and I am in no way, shape, or form, being cynical. I am no cynic. The cynics and that whole philosophical sect believed that through harshness and austerity that the human condition could be improved. The cynics of today still buy into this fantasy. I am an antinatalist. My position is that…

I am not frightened. On the contrary, it takes great courage to accept reality. There is no point indulging the delusion that somehow reality hasn't been clear on what it is for the past 13 billion years. A vast, expansive (continually expanding), sinkhole

Homo Sapiens is only a product of the reality that it is composed of. It is much deeper than the issue of being terrible. Even if humans somehow became "angelic" beings, which is the goal of an ideological sect called transhumanism, their goal is to make humans into things that utterly transcend the human…

I believe this is an article about interstellar travel, not interplanetary travel.

The use of the term drivel tells me that you're very annoyed at what I've typed up. Everything that I typed up are facts pulled from various articles on this subject. You would do well to read them. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/sci… Alcubierre himself states the drive is impossible.

An amusing response. Here I am contesting with the significance and plausibility of what is barely speculative technology at this point and using facts and the words of scientists themselves(I know you don't care about the facts, you care about the fantasy), and you're using what is in my humble opinion, an incredibly…

I am not a nihilist. I am an antinatalist.

How is that a fallacy of composition when all evidence leads to the fact that there are no space faring species out there? It's not about taking a part of something and ascribing it to the whole. That is the whole. In the universe's entire 13 billion year history there is no interstellar space faring species that has…

Conditions and limitations on earth are simply just not the same as the conditions and limitations in outer space. Space travel is nigh prohibitive on an interplanetary scale. On interstellar scales it's most likely impossible. It's very easy to imagine it happening and bringing up past instances of people thinking…

I am no debbie downer. Either you accept reality or you don't. Either way it doesn't matter. Being part of the fabric of reality itself, nobody gets to choose. The reality that exists on "the rock" is the same reality that will exist on "the other side of the fucking ocean" if there be anything there in the first…

Yeah, I get it, there could be things out there, aliens might have visited humans in the past,the aliens are probably using some form of technology entirely undetectable. We could be surrounded by sentient super advanced space faring species. Are we though? If it hasn't been remembered or recorded(your aliens visiting…

You disregard the point that colonization is invariably tied up in violence and destruction. Colonization was not good for the Amerindians when the Europeans "colonized"(invaded) their lands. Colonization was not good for the Africans when the Europeans "colonized"(invaded) their lands, the colonization of Ireland by…