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Comment author: johnlawrenceaspden 21 June 2013 01:34:13PM 4 points [-]

The situation is one of dire, unending, inescapable torture for all of life. How would death, or better yet nonexistence, not be preferable?

Are you sure about this? The lives of our medieval ancestors seem unedurably horrifying to me, and yet many of those people exhibited strong desires to live.

All wild animals exhibit strong desires to live. Why not take them at their word?