To be able to make such choice implies that I already exist in some form.
And I'd probably be too afraid of non-existence to choose not being born.
Life sucks, but I also don't want to "not-exist". Its terrifying.
Can I just be a ghost floating around and just "chill" and observe? Perhaps in the company of other ghosts to talk to...
This was my immediate thought also, whatever part of me that is making the decision already exists so this is the same question as "would you want to stop existing now?" the answer to which is an emphatic "no." I'd exist indefinitely given the choice.
I'm echoing a lot of the replies here by saying “No.” Even if I'm given a choice as to what kind of life I'd live, still no.
Even if people say there's a lot of good things in life, or that there are people living their dreams in this world, still no. I don't play the lottery, even if I might end up with more money than I could ever hope to spend. The same logic applies here.
There would be no me to regret not existing if I don't exist.
Like, now? No way. I would choose to continue my unborn existence. However, if I could choose a time period, that would be a different story.
Funny you should ask because fetus me actually tried to hang myself with my own umbilical cord and they had to cut me out of my mom to stop me. So apparently i really wasnt looking forward to my time on earth.
Even if my life currently is not bad, there are and have been bad times. Not existing is never bad. So no.
Others have already answered this well, but I'll repeat it anyway: No.
Just like how we don't know what it would feel like to be dead, and we dread dying, I suppose choosing to be born would feel like death of that self that is given this choice, so I guess the question can be rephrased as "if you could die in this moment, would you choose that?"
I guess not.
I think I would have preferred to just manifest as a being of energy that could take corporal form at will.
Would have been a lot easier on my mum.
I lean no, but it's close. On the one hand, life is meaningless and hurts. On the other I've gotten to see some cool things.
Yes. Alternative doesn’t actually exist, to some degree.
Even being able to process this question means some amount of knowledge to understand it.
Even then, yes. Every time. Existing is the best we know we’ve got.
Yes! I'd rather there be something than nothing. It's a wonder that anything exists at all
We all had a choice (well, maybe not ivf babies), we were just so dumb (single cell sperm) that the "choice" was not informed.
Not even true, contrary to popular belief it doesn't take one sperm cell in order to fertilize an egg it takes a bunch of sperm cells to fertilize an egg. This is why when men ejaculate they don't just ejaculate one sperm cell they ejaculate at least half a shot glass.
If a different sperm had won, I wouldn't be here.
Team effort or not, there is one success.
