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Antinatalism
In a move that won’t be doing the so-called “snowflake generation” any favors, a 27-year-old man has taken the drastic step of suing his parents. Their crime – having him in the first place.
Raphael Samuel, a businessman based in Mumbai, India, bases the dispute on the belief that it is immoral for a couple to bring a sentient being into the world without asking their permission to do so. His argument stems from a philosophical movement called “anti-natalism”, an outlook that reasons any new human life will inevitably involve pain and suffering, while pleasure (although good) is irrelevant to those who do not or have not existed in the first place.
An anti-natalist ultimately concludes it would have been better not to have been born in the first place.
Or as Samuel put it to BBC News: “My life is good, but I'd rather not be here. You know it's like there's a nice room, but I don't want to be in that room.”
https://www.iflscience.com/editors-b...him-heres-why/
Raphael Samuel, a businessman based in Mumbai, India, bases the dispute on the belief that it is immoral for a couple to bring a sentient being into the world without asking their permission to do so. His argument stems from a philosophical movement called “anti-natalism”, an outlook that reasons any new human life will inevitably involve pain and suffering, while pleasure (although good) is irrelevant to those who do not or have not existed in the first place.
An anti-natalist ultimately concludes it would have been better not to have been born in the first place.
Or as Samuel put it to BBC News: “My life is good, but I'd rather not be here. You know it's like there's a nice room, but I don't want to be in that room.”
https://www.iflscience.com/editors-b...him-heres-why/
Antinatalism, or anti-natalism, is a philosophical position that assigns a negative value to birth. Antinatalists argue that people should abstain from procreation because it is morally bad (some also recognize the procreation of other sentient beings as morally bad). In scholarly and in literary writings, various ethical foundations have been adduced for antinatalism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalism
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