I’ll give mine to get the ball rolling.

There was a user that, before getting banned, declared that every single living human being alive on Earth right now should not exist because no one had the benefit of a pre-conception device on hand to somehow determine each individual’s consent to exist before they started to exist.

I don’t know if that take would make David Benatar blush, make David Benatar cackle with glee, or if that was posted by David Benatar himself.

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    Sort of, though in Frankenstein’s creation’s case, the cruelty and hostility the creation immediately experienced after being created was the point (and, possibly, the creation’s own tendencies baked in by the creator’s haphazard work), not that life itself was (presumably) so fundamentally cruel by definition that life itself was the issue.