If suffering, a philosopher thought, is predicated upon existence—and indeed he remembered unlife as
If suffering, a philosopher thought, is predicated upon existence—and indeed he remembered unlife as categorically painless—then its continuation relies exclusively upon survival. Homo sapiens has a choice in its survival, and the morally correct option, when it came to the reduction of suffering, was for the human race to quit. Childbirth, the philosopher concluded, was the arrival of one more receiver and source of pain to share in the increasing woe, spiteful answer to a cascade of everlasting genesis.“Limits," The Alarmist #1 -- source link