My first AIDA competition

 Relaxing before STA

3:09 min STA

preparing for DYN

100m DYN

I got absolute second

My personal rebuttal of Benatar's anti-natalism

Even though I have strong anti-pro-natalist views tending to anti-natalism, my views difference from Benatar's view in several points:

1. Suffering is a subjective experience. Different beings will experiment the same in different ways. 
2. Some people get pleasure from suffering. 
3. Suffering is seem as the path of virtue by many philosophers.
4. Suffering outweighs pleasure when quality of life has a low standard. 
5. Even when in one’s life suffering outweighs pleasure is doesn't mean that for that being alive is not worth.
6. Happiness is overrated, the search for happiness produces more suffering than just living without goals.
7. Why should life have a purpose? Why should it matter to achieve a purpose to be able to enjoy life?
8. Philosophical existential suffering is a first world problem.
9. Most human suffering is provoked by modern societies that don’t give priority to a global welfare of all living beings. Society should be changed.
10. Humans have the potential to develop technology and use it for the good of living beings and to increase their well being.
11. Pain and stress are ways our body communicates with the central nervous system to avoid injury and danger and rest during disease. We have pain and stress so we can change our behaviour in order to keep us free of harms. There are people who have a condition where they feel no pain (congenital analgesia), these people die very early because they don’t do basic things like changing the position of their body.
12. Benatar overestimates the suffering provoked by pain and stress and we go back to the subjectivity of suffering (negative bias). 
13. How can one assume that living beings without a nervous system suffer?
14. We are not only one being, 95% or our body weight is made of bacterial, fungal and other forms of life. We are planets.
15. If someone already exists suicide might bring more suffering than waiting for death. But why this logic is only applied to an individual and not for the species? And what about the suffering of the extinction? If we stop breeding to extinction and some point everybody left will be over 80 and need care and help, on average there’ll much more suffering to let so many old people die without care than if some new people are brought into existence to take care of the older people. So since we already exist as species, our extinction would produce more suffering for the species than continuing the species. 
16. Exterminating life on Earth won’t end suffering because the universe probably has life in other planets and life can evolve again. We’re trapped in life, life is what we have.
17. There’s no god, there’s no afterlife, life is all we have.
18. Even if live is mainly made of suffering, it's possible to be creative enough to have fun in it. 
19. Most psychological suffering comes from inability of adaptation to new situations and lack of creativity to find new paths.
20. Benatar's asymmetry makes sense if you're using as reference of normality the mind of a depressed person or a person who suffers of a very painful condition. His ideas have a strong negative bias. Humans are no robots and will use their personal reference as coordinate of reference. It's no surprise that a depressed person has the zero reference on the negative side. It's also not unfair that if you're member of a minority you want to show your ideas from your personal point of view. If you accept depression as a normal state, of course you'll arrive to the conclusion that non depressed people are positively biased. It's something very important to be taken into account when reading his philosophy.
21. The only valid way to measure suffering is self-assessment, unless you're unable of communicate with that being with language, so you have to judge observing physical cues.
22. His book is full of examples of cherry picking towards the depressive realism's view.

I was expecting his book to give me some insight and maybe 

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