Hozmian Painism: How To Be Painist and Antinatalist at The Same Time

ABSTRACT

I wish I didn’t need this abstract, but this blog post turned out to be much longer than I expected, so I’ll give some idea of what this is all about here.

In this blog post, I will explain the basics of the purest form of Richard D. Ryder’s painism, which I shall call “Ryderian painism.”
Then I will propose “Hozmian painism,” which I think can solve what I consider to be a major problem with Ryderian painism.

Ryderian painism, at least in theory, can permit creation of a painient (*1) consciousness under very unique circumstances.
However, creating a painient consciousness essentially means creating someone who will always be the maximum sufferer in the only world that undoubtedly exists for them – the content of the perception of that painient consciousness – and antinatalism absolutely cannot permit such a cruel act.
In order to resolve the problem of Ryderian painism and antinatalism being incompatible with each other, a new rule that forbids creation of any painient consciousness needs to be added to the rule list of Ryderian painism, and given priority over any other painist rules that may clash with it in actual use.
That’s how we establish Hozmian painism.

*1: painient (adj.): capable of experiencing pain / painient (countable noun): painient being

I did think of calling it “solipsist painism,” but my understanding of solipsism is not solid enough, or in fact almost non-existent, so I’ll use the name of Hozmian painism for now.

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