Legal & personal disclaimers

01 · Purpose and positioning

What this site is, and is not

This site is a philosophical-content surface: essays, a glossary of coined terms, a book, video adaptations, and adjacent material proceeding from a single author’s intellectual position. It is not a clinical resource, not a therapeutic intervention, not a self-help framework, and not an instructional program. Readers encounter argument — to take, to leave, to interrogate.

The register is intentional. Pessimism, anti-natalism, structural arguments against existence, and adjacent positions are explored as philosophical positions in active discourse. Disagreement is the expected reader response; engagement on the work’s terms is its first ask.

02 · Not professional advice

Nothing here is a substitute for licensed counsel

Nothing on this site constitutes medical, psychological, legal, financial, or other professional advice. The author writes in the philosophical register; he is not licensed in any of the above domains. Readers seeking professional counsel should consult licensed professionals appropriate to their situation; this site does not substitute for that consultation, and the author makes no representation that the material here is fit for any particular purpose beyond philosophical inquiry.

03 · Philosophical positions, not advocacy

Anti-natalism, pessimism, voluntary extinction

The site discusses anti-natalism, structural pessimism, negative utilitarianism, the empirical asymmetry argument, and voluntary human extinction as positions in philosophical discourse. These are not calls to action, programs of coercion, or endorsements of harm.

The site does not promote violent acts. It expresses a sentiment of longing for the extinction of the anthropomorphic species known as homo sapiens — ideally through voluntary means — while understanding that ‘the end’ may come indirectly through in-fighting and non-consensual terms. Either way, the work does not endorse direct aggression through physical coercion (assault, suicide, homicide, or other), but transmissions of iconoclastic memes.

The arguments are meant to be read, contested, and integrated into the reader’s own thinking — not enacted as instruction. The reader retains full responsibility for how they engage the material.

04 · Personal Mementos — testimony, not template

One interior life, not a prescription

The Personal Mementos sequence (essays and book excerpts where the author writes in first person about lived experience — schizophrenia, panic, psychosomatic pain, isolation, and other particulars) is testimony. It is the record of a specific interior life under specific conditions over a specific period.

The author does not claim to speak for others with similar diagnoses or experiences, nor to prescribe response. Readers experiencing similar conditions are encouraged to seek the care and community that fits their circumstance; the page is not a substitute for either. Resemblance between the author’s interior and the reader’s is recognized, not generalized.

05 · If you are in crisis

Resources, without claims about them

Content on this site engages directly with themes of death, non-existence, suffering, and despair. Readers in acute personal crisis may want resources that this site cannot itself provide:

• Crisis lifelines — most jurisdictions operate one (in the United States, 988; in the United Kingdom and Ireland, Samaritans at 116 123; an international directory exists at findahelpline.com).
• A trusted person — professional, friend, family, or otherwise.

The author does not make claims about the policies, confidentiality, or specific procedures of any listed resource; readers should investigate what fits their circumstance. The work’s register is what it is; this page is not a tonal apology for that, but a recognition that not every reader arrives on the same footing.

06 · Privacy and data

What this site collects, and does not

This site is static — HTML, CSS, and a small amount of JavaScript served by Cloudflare Pages. There is no first-party analytics tracking, no behavioral telemetry, and no advertising. Audio playback is served from a self-owned Cloudflare R2 bucket; playback events are not analytics-instrumented.

Cloudflare’s edge logs may collect standard request data (IP address, user-agent, referrer, request URL) for infrastructure and security purposes, governed by Cloudflare’s own privacy terms. No cookies are set by this site for tracking. The site does not require an account and stores nothing about the reader beyond what passes through Cloudflare’s default request handling.

07 · Copyright and reuse

Licensed under CC-BY-4.0; attribution required; share and adapt freely

All written content, audio, and visual material authored for this site is © Josiah S. Cooper, 2010–2026, and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY-4.0). The full license text is also mirrored at /LICENSE. You are free to copy, redistribute, remix, transform, and build upon the material in any medium or format, for any purpose — including commercially — provided you give appropriate credit to Josiah S. Cooper, link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

Associated projects may carry their own terms. The efilist Argument Library at library.wuld.ink ships under dual CC-BY-4.0 (content) and MIT (code) licensing per its repository. Malgré Tout — the book — retains standard authorial copyright as an independently-published artifact; the CC-BY-4.0 license here covers the book’s presentation pages and authorial commentary on the site, not the book’s text itself. The Ne Hoc Fiat / Successor Protocol project is in development and unreleased; its surface materials are gated and not yet under public license. Readers seeking permission for uses outside the scope of CC-BY-4.0 — or for material outside its scope — should contact the author.