LemonSlice said:
Mr Khan said:
If my mother had aborted me, I would have never existed, effectively. It really runs into the "would the world be better off if I had never been born?" question, which is hard to answer.
Some parts are intrinsically less valuable due to a lack of ability to perceive the "self." If we cannot perceive the "self" (for instance, passing the mirror test. Funnily, pigs can pass that test whereas infants cannot), then we are not what makes us human. For healthy fetii, of course, they have the capacity to reach that point, but we cannot certainly say that they are on the level with a thinking human. Similarly with people who are in persistent vegatative states (that is, unable to think now and in the future)
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Isn't you never having existed a more horrible thought than your life ending at this moment? It's not about you never making your mark on the world, it's about you never having experienced a moment of you own life. You can't honestly just care about what the world would be like. Humans aren't like that.
At that point in time no one knows what the world would be like with and without you. No one knows even now.
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Not really. By never having the opportunity to exist, you don't have the ability to comprehend the horror of nonbeing.
