Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy

Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy

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Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy
Martin Butler's Negative Philosophy
Disdain It All

Disdain It All

A reasoned analysis of costs versus benefits would say that life can be disdained.

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Life is rotten to the core. It operates on the principle that each living thing will strive with all its being to survive, and that survival usually means eating other living things. I'm pretty sure that even the most vindictive and sadistic person would not create a scenario that would cause such misery. It's not as if st…

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