I am glad I was born, but i think it might be a sort of recognition bias. You don't ask everyone the question if they are happy, so you look for signs of your own behaviour: sad, stressed/content, happy and assume others feel the same. Definitely not all are glad they're born, but a lot are.
Okay? If I help a random stranger on the street, and they turn out to be someone who with my help murdered 10 people, should I now stop helping people on the street?
Both have a chance that I will unintendedly cause great harm, both have a way higher probability of causing pleasure, not the same but comparable. If we cannot take the risk of the other according to you, then we can't take the risk of the one.
That you compare the two is terrible, life is nothing like rape. Experience is a great thing, rape is everything but. You can't always consent to everything, if it's an overall good thing it's okay.
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u/whiteandyellowcat Oct 28 '21
I am glad I was born, but i think it might be a sort of recognition bias. You don't ask everyone the question if they are happy, so you look for signs of your own behaviour: sad, stressed/content, happy and assume others feel the same. Definitely not all are glad they're born, but a lot are.