Thread: Video - World's Largest Hatchery - Um, wow.

Originally Posted by LucidFlanders

shit happens, and there is no way to stop it... it's a useless battle that can't be won, so just accept it, it's bigger then all of us.

This view applied generally through out all aspects of life is the reason why the world is in such a terrible place.

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

I don't know about "absolutely." How could one claim that a moment of life, of consciousness, no matter how that time period happens to turn out, is worse than not living at all? Who really has the authority to make that decision...? We can't even take a poll and ask the animals if they would have preferred to have never existed.

All you have to do is ask yourself, having existed briefly and excruciatingly could you ever wish to have not existed? And then ask yourself, having not existed at all, could you ever wish to have existed excruciatingly, or even at all? Nothing is better or worse than non-existence for the being in question.