{"id":4737,"date":"2010-04-18T21:52:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T05:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=4737"},"modified":"2010-04-18T21:52:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T05:52:13","slug":"if-youre-feeling-philosophical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/if-youre-feeling-philosophical\/","title":{"rendered":"If You&#8217;re Feeling Philosophical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/thinking-in-knots.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4739\" title=\"thinking in knots\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/thinking-in-knots-219x300.jpg?resize=219%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/thinking-in-knots.jpg?resize=219%2C300&amp;ssl=1 219w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/thinking-in-knots.jpg?w=498&amp;ssl=1 498w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nearly two years ago, I brought up the subject of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antinatalism\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>antinatalism<\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/2008\/07\/23\/the-dont-have-children-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and the arguments that ensued in the comments thread were impassioned, long-winded, and hysterically funny.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just discovered that the argument about antinatalism is still going strong, so if you missed it, check up on it <a href=\"http:\/\/antinatalism.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/tggp-says.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/entitledtoanopinion.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/23\/against-antinatalism\/#comment-6039\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. I think the proponents of this belief system are not only wrong but tragically unglued. They appear to be desperately trapped in an endless loop of faulty logic, with no evident escape.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly two years ago, I brought up the subject of antinatalism here, and the arguments that ensued in the comments thread were impassioned, long-winded, and hysterically funny. I&#8217;ve just discovered that the argument about antinatalism is still going strong, so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/if-youre-feeling-philosophical\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,5,7,6],"tags":[294,584],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-1ep","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}