Asklemmy

Seeing as how shit everything is, 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

Absolutely.

Yes. Alternative doesn’t 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 we’ve got.

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.

Do I get a vision of my entire life, or do I just have to choose on a whim?

Depends. What's the alternative?

Maybe if I had the choice of where and when to be born. Much too risky to leave it up to chance though

I don't know what I would choose, I was just a little baby at the time

Yes. We have to persist through the horrors, thats just how it is on this bitch of an earth

Like, now? No way. I would choose to continue my unborn existence. However, if I could choose a time period, that would be a different story.

Yes, but with better teeth.

only under certain conditions; mostly pertaining to wealth & vanity. lol

Now? No.
If I had the choice I'd wait a century or two

If it was before I’d had my kids, probably. Now with my kids existing in the world, I’d essentially be deleting their existences too, so no.

absolutely, I'm a fucking delight. Eudaemonia, baby!

Hard to say.

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.

We all had a choice (well, maybe not ivf babies), we were just so dumb (single cell sperm) that the "choice" was not informed.