Antinatalism and Depression LXVIII: Prozac Plus
Channel: Anekantavad
Date: 2012-09-01

"All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects." - Soma, from Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World.

We've cured some diseases. What if we cured harm itself?

"Was and will make me ill,
I take a gram and only am."
 - "Brave New World" again

Benatar's axioms could be turned on their head, given the right kind of drugs and better knowledge of the central nervous system.

"As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born -- and particularly bad luck it is." 
― David Benatar, Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence

What if we could pharmacologically disprove that statement? What if the actual veracity of the above statement could be conclusively made false?

I can't possibly be the first person to come up with this objection.