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I'm for less people being born period. The moment someone is born they are immediately susceptible to suffering without having a choice in the matter (since you can't consent to being born). Even just sitting in a room where nothing could harm you, a person would eventually become bored and hungry. But you can never guarantee that no harm would come to a child, because in order to live in a society you have to interact. Interacting always comes with some sort of risk since you never know what may happen. Not to mention if you got the short end of the stick with your genetics and your own body starts deteriorating from some sort of disease.

Doesn't mean that there aren't happy moments, but they are always fleeting since no one is happy everyday all the time. My current life is decent and I have all my basic needs met, but that can easily go downhill quickly if I don't continue working or my health suffers. And it's not like I'm working because I'm enjoying it, though there are some good moments, I do it because it's required to live. Work is mostly just mundane and stressful, which the vast majority of jobs are and what you'll spend most of your life doing.

So I don't see the point in bring more people in this world, and I definitely don't see eye-to-eye with pro-life people, although with a different reason than most. Even if you could guarantee a rich and purposeful life full of happiness there's no way to prevent death. Regardless of what religion promises people, no one knows for sure what happens after death since the only way to confirm is to actually die. A person who isn't born doesn't have to experience any suffering, and of the opinion that's the better choice.
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