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[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If I had the choice ahead of time? No, I wouldn't choose to be born.

If it's a retroactive thing though, I wouldn't undo my birth

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Absolutely.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

If I'm just being asked to be born in a randomized way in a randomized location to a randomized family in randomized situations .... then no

If I had a choice of where, when and what circumstances I would like to be born in? ... then yes I would like those odds better and would like to be born.

[–] Oka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do I get a vision of my entire life, or do I just have to choose on a whim?

[–] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Oka@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Do I have knowledge of when I will be born? And am I aware of the high and lows of the era?

[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

You probably know when you were born

[–] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Oka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

Then my answer is No.

Humans have not yet reached a point in the entire history where they are deemed worthy of being part of.

If there is a point in the future where there is acceptance of all, fairness for all, and peace among all, then I would say yes.

That version of human will have the ultimate freedom.

Yes, but with better teeth.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Depends. What's the alternative?

[–] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

What does that entail?

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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know what I would choose, I was just a little baby at the time

[–] TheColonel@reddthat.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yes. Alternative doesn’t actually exist, to some degree.

Even being able to process this question means some amount of knowledge to understand it.

Even then, yes. Every time. Existing is the best we know we’ve got.

[–] Electric_Druid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yes. We have to persist through the horrors, thats just how it is on this bitch of an earth

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Like, now? No way. I would choose to continue my unborn existence. However, if I could choose a time period, that would be a different story.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe if I had the choice of where and when to be born. Much too risky to leave it up to chance though

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 2 weeks ago

Some religions -old and new - believe we choose the lessons we come to learn. If we learn quickly, we can advance to more advanced lessons, if we refuse or aren't capable of understanding our lessons, we repeat them, in one life or another. Just as settings, teachers and teaching styles vary, so do the subjective experiences and understanding of the lessons. Repeating them is karma. Demonstrating grasp and practical application is dharma. Choosing to incarnate to help others learn because one feels a deep empathy and compassion for everyone on the wheel of Samsara is bodhisattva.

Some of these religions believe we reincarnate until we have lived every experience from every possible perspective.

That said, back to my own cultural religious teachings, would I eat again from the tree of knowledge of good and evil? If I'm honest, on my worst days, no. On ok and best days? Yes. It's good to experience things from various perspectives. Our imaginations have been constrained and lack ability. Physical and intellectual exercise is the remedy.

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Now? No.
If I had the choice I'd wait a century or two

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

only under certain conditions; mostly pertaining to wealth & vanity. lol

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

If it was before I’d had my kids, probably. Now with my kids existing in the world, I’d essentially be deleting their existences too, so no.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

absolutely, I'm a fucking delight. Eudaemonia, baby!

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Hard to say.

[–] iSeth@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We all had a choice (well, maybe not ivf babies), we were just so dumb (single cell sperm) that the "choice" was not informed.

[–] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not even true, contrary to popular belief it doesn't take one sperm cell in order to fertilize an egg it takes a bunch of sperm cells to fertilize an egg. This is why when men ejaculate they don't just ejaculate one sperm cell they ejaculate at least half a shot glass.

[–] iSeth@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If a different sperm had won, I wouldn't be here.

Team effort or not, there is one success.

[–] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

You've got a point. What was I thinking swimming to that egg?

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