Shades of old Hegesias, known to the history of philosophy as "the Death Persuader."
Who, of course, did not kill himself.
To borrow from Voltaire, the pessimists are not a sect of philosophers but a sect of liars, frauds, deceitful cranks, drama queens, serial killers, and mass murderers by remote control, miniatures of Hannibal the Cannibal talking Miggs into killing himself out of sheer malignity.
Reading Thomas Ligotti, a more transparent fraud, huckster, and malign prankster than most.
The Conspiracy against the Human Race.
"Philosophers" like these are not so different from cult leaders, carnival fortune tellers, notorious spirit mediums, or other sociopaths remorselessly exploiting human weakness.
Ligotti is such a boob he really thinks people could be better or worse off for having been born.
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