Antinatalism and Depression L: Benatar's Wager
Channel: Anekantavad
Date: 2012-08-21

If we are to auto-extinct, I want something more convincing than a good logical argument for it.

Pascal's Roulette?
Benatar's Roulette?

The o-so-convincing Mr Pascal: http://www.gradeamathhelp.com/images/blaise-pascal.jpg

A willingness to do this is not the sign of a healthy mind, or even a healthy attitude. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iWrvk51f8r4/T76gCzCc5TI/AAAAAAAABX8/kVHZJF-Dcvk/s1600/russian-roulette.jpg

Wiki: Pascal's Wager (also known as Pascal's Gambit) is an argument in apologetic philosophy which was devised by the seventeenth-century French philosopher, mathematician, and physicist, Blaise Pascal. It posits that there's more to be gained from wagering on the existence of God than from atheism, and that a rational person should live as though God exists, even though the truth of the matter cannot actually be known.

Mr Benatar is attempting to use the same "logic" on us all, with our survival as a species (and our ultimate view of ourselves and life itself) as the stakes.