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toomuchtodo on July 25, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chrom...

I do feel the same way of my existence being discussed this way. Would anything be different had I not existed? No, besides my brief life experience and interactions I’ve had with other humans not occurring. I wouldn’t have even known I never existed. Is that good or bad? Right or wrong? No, it just is.

lurk2 on July 25, 2025 [–]

> Would anything be different had I not existed? No, besides my brief life experience and interactions I’ve had with other humans not occurring.

“Besides” is doing a lot of work here.

toomuchtodo on July 25, 2025 | [–]

We perhaps disagree about the value of the human experience based on lived experiences.

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