Is it normal that i think this way?

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I don't really know how to best explain this. I'll try to keep this relatively short.
The happiness and everything good that's happening sin this world don't add up for all the suffering. Not even in the slightest.
For example, imagine you had two babies, not yours. You have 2 options. Either, you can go send one of the babies to have a wonderful life, loving parents, wealth and whatnot. The other kid however, would have to live a life of misery and agony, being tortured and abused from a young age on.
The 2nd option is for both babies to die (painlessly) or never be born in the first place.
I would definitely take the 2nd option and go as far as to call anyone not taking that option extremely cruel, maybe oblivious to their cruelty, but cruel nonetheless.

Now looking to reality, if you could decide whether to eradicate all life, and therby all suffering, as well as joy, would you do it?
I would and I would have no second thoughts about it.
Wouldn't it be cruel not to do so?
I can understand anyone being selfish and not taking that option just because they want to keep their own happiness and I wouldn't condemn anyone for it. Other people might be too ignorant to do the right thing.
But am I wrong when I say it would be otherwise the morally right thing to do?

I don't really want to think like this so I would gladly be convinced of the opposite but I just can't see any compelling argument(s) at all. Maybe I'm just missing something

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  • WeirdGuyFromTheSouth
    5 years ago

    I was sexually abused from a young age and im glad im not dead lol. Cant agree with your theory.

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    • Nikclaire
      5 years ago

      I was too and while I often have days were I wish I was dead it's logically a ridiculous solution.

      Pain is better than nothingness.

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    • RoseIsabella
      5 years ago

      I sure as Hell ain't killing any babies!

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  • Boojum
    5 years ago

    You sound like a sixteen year-old with the miserablist, nihilistic mindset that typically comes with that age.

    You say that, "The happiness and everything good that's happening sin this world don't add up for all the suffering." I take that to mean that you believe the bad in the world outweighs the good.

    First, how precisely do you measure good and ill? Do you believe that there is some numerical score on a scale ranging from -100 through zero and on to +100 that can be assigned to every event and every emotion that a person experiences? Six decades of hanging out here leads me to believe that life is just not that simple.

    In any case, your assertion is merely your opinion. Since it's not an irrefutable fact, all that follows is invalid.

    You may well believe you're being edgy and cool by saying you'd happily obliterate all life on earth, but you're only demonstrating your emotional immaturity, negative mindset and lack of experience.

    I suggest you do a degree in philosophy. It will be totally irrelevant in the job market, but great fun if you enjoy this sort of intellectual jerking off.

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  • sissycakes
    5 years ago

    basically i am not saying that i want the world to end, but one thing is for sure you have opened my eyes to a new way of thinking. this is really intelligent. it reminds me of utilitarianism where a persons actions should be deemed by the greatest good outweighing the bad.

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  • Grunewald
    5 years ago

    Was God cruel to create humans at all? Only if he intended to keep the world as prone to evil, frustration and suffering as it is now. Christians believe that he does not.

    Let me put a stone in your shoe: if there is no moral arbiter, can there be such a thing as 'cruelty'?

    For the vast technicolor multidimensional soap opera that is life, I am grateful, because it's the most magnificent mess. There is nothing that has come out of this earth, which is quite as glorious as the painful, bittersweet mess that is human life. Lifeless matter is beautiful in its own way, but life, in its kaleidoscope of ecstasies of bliss and agony, is a masterpiece. That is what we watch soap operas for, isn't it?

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    • TheMightyOz
      5 years ago

      First, There is nothing new under the sun. Get a grip on reality, please.

      Second, I can't get it up. In your inexcusable aloofness, this means that I live in the agony of patheticness every second of my life. Do you think God gives a fuck? Do you think any moral arbitrator fucking cares? NO, nobody cares. I am the brunt of Darwinian selection and I do not have the luxury of ignoring reality like you do.

      Third, someday you will be on psychotropic medications. Mark my word.

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      • Nikclaire
        5 years ago

        I know

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      • Grunewald
        5 years ago

        I already am on psychotropic medications. And if I were male and unable to 'get it up' I would still probably be a virgin at 29 years young.

        Indeed there is nothing new under the sun. I think you'll find God gives much more than a fuck, when you read the Biblical account of him. If you could say nothing else about whether he was good or bad, kind or cruel, the least you'd have to admit would be that he gives one.

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        • TheMightyOz
          5 years ago

          The bible says many things, grandiose, glorious, and pleasing. But guess what. When you test the real world for them, they do not exist. Do you know what does exist? Randomness. Pure and simple. At best, this means God throws random situations equally at everyone.

          Better increase the dosage of your medications.

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          • Grunewald
            5 years ago

            That smear about the meds was below the belt. They are antidepressants.

            I have tested the Bible against the world and it reveals a lot of truth about human nature, and the nature of God and the world - not a pixie sky faerie sort of God - but the sort of God whose magnum opus is fleshy, bloody, messy and full of painful, bittersweet love. I think the Cross is a perfect emblem of the kind of world we live in. One where unspeakable suffering is mixed with a love expressed in blood, sweat, tears, spit and pleural fluid, where loyalty is passionate but faltering and where pain can be so intense that even the Son of God questions his heavenly Father. Yes, this is the world we live in. Raw and warm.

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            • TheMightyOz
              5 years ago

              A very subjective yet colorful and dramatic interpretation. You should write movie reviews. I suppose organized religion was the best entertainment civilization could provide until cinemagraphic technology was invented. There are no movies about my limp dick, nor are there scriptural passages about cocks that don't work because the ratings were just too low. I'm sure you would give my pathetic life a rating of zero stars. You only care about theatrical impact, and emotional excitement because it is advertising to create sales - sales for God.

              Sorry, I was wrong about the medications. Since they are antidepressants, you should probably cut back your dosage a bit.

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            • Nikclaire
              5 years ago

              Ok

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        • Nikclaire
          5 years ago

          I know baby

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  • WeirdGuyFromTheSouth
    5 years ago

    Did I mention as a child I was fucked in the arse by a dick? 😂🤣

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    • Nikclaire
      5 years ago

      Do you have to laugh to deal with it or is it a lie. I ask because I really was.

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      • WeirdGuyFromTheSouth
        5 years ago

        Idk it just not bothered me. I just thought he was a weird dude and stayed away. 😂

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  • Nikclaire
    5 years ago

    If you truelly believe your premise then why are you alive to write this post. Shouldn't you have committed suicide by now?

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  • RoseIsabella
    5 years ago

    I sure as Hell ain't killing any babies!

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  • Meowypowers
    5 years ago

    Your hypothesis involves 2 seperate people. And babies at that. In life it takes pain to know joy. Suffering to thrive. I have suffered so much mental and physical pain, but the joy is still worth it. Nothingness is therefore worse than the pain.

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