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I identify as a #consequentialist and a (negative) #utilitarian, I suspect that existence is _probably_ not worth it because of the asymmetry of #qualia, and yet I have no intention of ending my own life (and I think that's rational). Why?
When we're #children we don't really understand what suffering is, and we don't even know that living is a choice. So we live.
#Teens and young adults famously tend to get closer to one of two poles: either they're disappointed, miserable, or lost (some of those do end their lives), or they are having a great time: they're at their prime, disease and pain are unknown to them, they discover pleasures, etc (those are happy to live).
We #adults are usually so entangled in relationships by this stage of life that even if/when we decided that non-existence beat existence _for us_, we wouldn't want to cause more suffering to those who love us and those who depend on us. So we (usually) live.