(This essay was 1st published in Portuguese on July, 2020) In this essay, I talk about how pessimist philosophy doesn't owe anything to political conservatism. I discuss how we might believe in political and social progress while still being aware that existence is suffering. Another thing discussed is the idea that in order for one to be an antinatalist, one doesn't have to subscribe to a strong realist meta-ethical stance — that is, one doesn't have to subscribe to the idea that morality is mind-independent. Rather, one can also adopt the stance that morality is put together by thinking agents who consider features of nature, such as pain and suffering. 

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