system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
CMV:All lives are of net negative value.

All the ways in which one can be happy, fulfilled, or satisfied are merely the satisfaction of constant cravings we are used to.  Most obviously, an experienced smoker does not experience net positive utility in smoking; they merely experience the brief alleviation of an unpleasant craving. Which, if to be regarded as positive at all, can only be regarded as relatively positive rather than absolutely positive.

I claim this to be true of all experiences.  All that is good to us (even Millsian "higher pleasures")  is merely the relief of an absence, the presence of something previously lacking.  As such, the best we can conceivably hope for is a life of 0 utility.  All our efforts to be happy are just us clawing our way to neutrality.

The best we can do is to alleviate our suffering and the suffering of others.  So long as this is possible, that is our duty.  We should avoid inflicting the unfortunate state of being necessitated by our biological nature on new lives.

We are machines made for fucking to make more machines.  There is no deep purpose in life that would justify its continuation, but the closest we can get is to realise our suffering is unnecessary and morally indefensible, and we can frustrate our evolutionary function and quit perpetuating something unnecessary and ultimately unpleasant.
gpt
This seems arbitrary. If you're a utilitarian, you can set the zero point for utility essentially anywhere you want. It's totally arbitrary because utility is necessarily measured in arbitrary units. Saying that max utility is zero is no different from saying that min utility is zero; it's no more meaningful than jumping from Celsius to Kelvin.