大卫·贝纳塔尔：反出生主义的核心要义

原标题：David Benatar: Antinatalism in a nutshell

视频：https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l88ugDhM_OI

Imagine that you had a magic wand. If you tapped a stone with this wand the stone would become sentient and thus capable of experiencing both pain and pleasure. As a sentient stone, it would, for example, require and enjoy hydration, but would experience parching thirst when not exposed to water for protracted periods and would drown if covered in water. It would enjoy the warm rays of sun on a lovely day, but it would experience hypothermia if the environment became too cold and hyperthermia if it became too hot.

想象你有一根魔杖，如果你用这根魔杖轻拍一块石头，石头就会有知觉，因此它既能感受疼痛也能感受到愉悦。作为一块有知觉的石头，它需要也会享受水的养分。但如果长期接触不到水，它就会极其干渴。而如果被水淹没，它则会溺水而亡。在天气晴朗的时候它能享受温暖的阳光，但它也会因为环境太冷而得失温症， 或者因为太热而产生高热。

Should you tap the stone, should you not, the stone is no interest in becoming sentient and it will suffer and die if it does. Surely you should leave all stones unturned. Creating sentient frankenstones would be a horror show.

无论你该不该轻拍那块石头，这石头都对产生知觉不感兴趣。而一旦有了知觉，它就会受伤害会死去。你当然不该去碰那些石头了。将它们创造成有知觉的弗兰肯斯坦石头会是一场恐怖秀。

In important ways, tapping the stone is like procreation. You create a sentient being where there was none a being that is liable to the vicissitudes of fate, a being capable of suffering unspeakably, a being that will die. If procreation were not so natural and normal it would be seen for the tragedy and travesty that it is.

在许多重要的层面上，轻拍这块石头就和生育一样。你创造了一个有知觉的个体，而在那之前，一个受困于命运沉浮的个体，一个能过得苦不堪言的个体， 一个将会死去的个体却不曾存在过。如果生育不是那么自然和正常，这其中的悲哀和扭曲会是多么明显。

That is the very short version of why I am an antinatalist and why you should be too.

简而言之，这就是为什么我是反出生主义者，以及为什么你也该是。

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