A capitalist slave system where we work to live.
If we're lucky...
The other side is homelessness and hunger.
A failing climate of our own volition.
Wars and dead children.
Tyranny and authoritarianism.
Loneliness, grief, despair.
Horrible mental health and physical issues.
Is this the type of world you wanna bring an innocent being into? I don't get it.
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Every pro-natalist uses the same argument: "What if your child grows up to cure cancer or solve climate change?" It's a fantasy. The odds of your child being the next Einstein are infinitesimally small. The odds of your child experiencing depression, anxiety, debt, heartbreak, and existential dread are astronomically high.
You're not gambling on a genius. You're gambling on a human being who will experience the full spectrum of suffering that life has to offer. And you're doing it for what? To feel like you've contributed something to the world? That's not altruism; that's ego. The world doesn't need more people. It needs fewer suffering people. Stop using hypothetical achievements to justify the very real suffering of a conscious being.
I recently found out I'm antinatalist, but I'm unsure if should share it with anyone. If you're openly antinatalist, how did people react? Do they treat you any differently?
My grandmother was sexually abused as a child and my mother was sexually abused as a child. If they could not prevent it happening to me, knowing it happened to them, what would make one believe it can be prevented in the future?
Being raped as a child is not a good reason to not have children? Well, my child can’t consent to having the possibility of experiencing that and I’M not going to risk it. (At least) 3 generations in, I will be the one to end this cursed bloodline, and proudly at that lol
Knowing something like that is a possible doesn’t bother natalists?!
I just think it's wild. Why would you do such a thing? He thinks the number of offspring represents how successful you are, and part of the evolution, and mock me that I can't be qualified anyways even if I want to . How should I debate him?