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  • Man Suing Parents For Being Born

    Just when you thought you hear it all!

    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/
    Antinatalism

    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
    Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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    Does he give any hints on how we're supposed to ask permission of a conceived being before (or after) it's conceived?



    If he doesn't want to be here so badly, I'm sure he can find a solution for that and leave his parents in peace.
    Last edited by mossrose; 02-12-2019, 11:25 AM.


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    • #3
      He needs some help for his suicidal tendencies!
      If it weren't for the Resurrection of Jesus, we'd all be in DEEP TROUBLE!

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      • #4
        Originally posted by mossrose View Post
        Does he give any hints on how we're supposed to ask permission of a conceived being before (or after) it's conceived?



        If he doesn't want to be here so badly, I'm sure he can find a solution for that and leave his parents in peace.
        Exactly...
        Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Christianbookworm View Post
          He needs some help for his suicidal tendencies!
          This whole Antinatalism movement is suicidal - for humanity...
          Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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          • #6
            Are they related to the voluntary human extinction guys?
            If it weren't for the Resurrection of Jesus, we'd all be in DEEP TROUBLE!

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Christianbookworm View Post
              Are they related to the voluntary human extinction guys?
              I don't know. How many of theses voluntary human extinction guys actually pulled the trigger, so to speak...
              Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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              • #8
                I hope he wins! Maybe the court will allow his parents to retroactively abort him.

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                • #9
                  Hmm... seems like this kind of thing is common in worldviews that consider matter to be inferior. Guy definitely needs Jesus! Christianity is best worldview!
                  If it weren't for the Resurrection of Jesus, we'd all be in DEEP TROUBLE!

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by mossrose View Post
                    Does he give any hints on how we're supposed to ask permission of a conceived being before (or after) it's conceived?



                    If he doesn't want to be here so badly, I'm sure he can find a solution for that and leave his parents in peace.
                    Unfortunately, there is no way to ask aborted babies if they would have preferred to have lived, and no way for them to sue...
                    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                    • #11
                      Last I checked we are all thrust into existence. I am happy we have something instead of nothing.
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
                        Unfortunately, there is no way to ask aborted babies if they would have preferred to have lived, and no way for them to sue...
                        People were suing on behalf of inanimate objects IIRC, so why not aborted babies?

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                        • #13
                          I feel like there's a high probability he's just doing this for publicity.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Christianbookworm View Post
                            Hmm... seems like this kind of thing is common in worldviews that consider matter to be inferior. Guy definitely needs Jesus! Christianity is best worldview!
                            There were a few gnostic versions of Christianity in the 2nd century that considered matter to be inferior and birth to be a bad thing whereby pre-existent souls were captured from heaven and tied into evil matter. So it's not as if Christianity as a whole is exempt from this tendency.

                            Although a thought I find it amusing to toy with... what if, upon further scientific analysis of how human consciousness works, we were to discover that this sort of thing was actually true?
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                            • #15
                              And those guys were heretics! False teachers who were twisting the Gospel into a man made religion.
                              If it weren't for the Resurrection of Jesus, we'd all be in DEEP TROUBLE!

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