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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.
So far, yes. I think being able to be physically embodied is so remarkable. And on top of that, to be able to hear and see (sort of) and think and feel? It's not gonna last forever, so I want to feel it while I can. Absolutely yes.
Fuck no!
If I had the choice ahead of time? No, I wouldn't choose to be born.
If it's a retroactive thing though, I wouldn't undo my birth
Yes. Alternative doesnβt 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 weβve got.
Yes. We have to persist through the horrors, thats just how it is on this bitch of an earth
Life sucks. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll see that it doesn't.
I don't know what I would choose, I was just a little baby at the time
Yes, but with better teeth.
Do I get a vision of my entire life, or do I just have to choose on a whim?
Choose on a whim
Do I have knowledge of when I will be born? And am I aware of the high and lows of the era?
You probably know when you were born
If I'm just being asked to be born in a randomized way in a randomized location to a randomized family in randomized situations .... then no
If I had a choice of where, when and what circumstances I would like to be born in? ... then yes I would like those odds better and would like to be born.
Now? No.
If I had the choice I'd wait a century or two
Some religions -old and new - believe we choose the lessons we come to learn. If we learn quickly, we can advance to more advanced lessons, if we refuse or aren't capable of understanding our lessons, we repeat them, in one life or another. Just as settings, teachers and teaching styles vary, so do the subjective experiences and understanding of the lessons. Repeating them is karma. Demonstrating grasp and practical application is dharma. Choosing to incarnate to help others learn because one feels a deep empathy and compassion for everyone on the wheel of Samsara is bodhisattva.
Some of these religions believe we reincarnate until we have lived every experience from every possible perspective.
That said, back to my own cultural religious teachings, would I eat again from the tree of knowledge of good and evil? If I'm honest, on my worst days, no. On ok and best days? Yes. It's good to experience things from various perspectives. Our imaginations have been constrained and lack ability. Physical and intellectual exercise is the remedy.
only under certain conditions; mostly pertaining to wealth & vanity. lol
If it was before Iβd had my kids, probably. Now with my kids existing in the world, Iβd essentially be deleting their existences too, so no.
absolutely, I'm a fucking delight. Eudaemonia, baby!
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.