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_refugee_  ·  3487 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I don't understand why you have to pay to live on a planet you were born on.

I'm dismissive because I find it impossible to relate to the impetus behind the question. It doesn't bother me that I am "forced to pay for" the world I "didn't ask to be born into." No one asks to be born and it is impossible to ask someone if they want to be born. So basically I feel like a big hullabaloo is being made over a matter whose significance is lost on me and some of it feels very petty indeed; by which I mean the part about "not asking to be born," really.

If you really didn't want to be born I agree with bb and the others in this thread. There's a solution for that. If your problem is just society, there are also solutions for that. They may not be comfortable but that is what you get in return for deciding to eschew the structures that are established in part to provide us comfort, at the cost of demanding some conformity - more depending on where you live.

Also it doesn't seem to me like OP is listening to the discussion with both ears open - but that may be because i can't emotionally relate and therefore empathize with his position.