Posted: Apr 14, 2012 6:02 pm
How do you know that an individual would request not to be born, assuming they had the capacity to make such a decision?
Because I would have made that decision myself.
Once you're alive the thought of dying is frightening and so you don't automatically jump off a bridge when you are in deep distress. Once people are alive they tend to want to live because the other option of personal extinction if frightening. ( And Dorothy Parker listed the difficulties in commiting suicide which she herself attempted) http://www.breakoutofthebox.com/resume.htm
If I myself loved life I would probably not fathom how someone could reject it.I remember reading a book about a teenage girl who attempted suicide and it the time I couldn't fathom not wanting to live.
But once you get into that situation you understand fully and develop a unique perspective somewhat.
This is a thought experiment I apply. If you were offered a suffering free life but in exachange a baby had to ne perpetually tortured would you accept this offer?
This is what people do when they have children they accept/tolerate these million suicides and the wars inequality depression genocide and cancer and I find that deeply immoral personally.