Anti-natalism?

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So is this term new to anyone? It is to me. Anti-natalists are people who feel there is negative value assigned to birth. Has anyone really heard anything about this before? It is a real thing however. 
I do not think I would consider myself one, certain aspects have very extreme points. But I do find some very interesting points as well. You’d have to look into it, there is logic behind it but it’s also I would say a VERY controversial way of thinking and feeling. Just posting to see if I’m the only one who has heard of this term because no one I know has.

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I just find anti-natalists draining and pathetic. 
There’s nothing wrong with people wanting and having kids. It’s one of the most natural instincts and desires we have. Not wanting kids, I understand. Being vocally against reproduction altogether is pathetic and honestly so off putting.

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It’s been around since Ancient Greece but I don’t agree with it. We should wish to do better by our world and environment, not wish we would’ve never been born. It’s also ironic that anti-natalists had to be born to come to the conclusion that other should abstain from procreation.

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I think humans in general are a scourge on the Earth and do nothing but destroy, pillage, and profit off of other beings. So yea, I guess I'm an ecological antinatalist. 
However, it doesnt have to be this way.

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It isn’t new to me. I’ve been aware of it for a little while now because I went through a phase of considering myself that.

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What do they plan on doing about it? I could argue that babies do consent because the act of the sperm meeting the egg is not (usually) the parents physically attaching said sperm. The parents simply form the meeting point and the sperm finds the egg on its own, and in that case wants to come into existence, wants to be born. Although it is not considered a baby yet, but for their anti-natal argument they are calling it a baby who is formed against its will, right? But the fetus forms itself. It does it all quite quickly, and it starts the process of evolving and becoming a baby whether the mother consents or not. So you could say that everyone, on some deeper biological level, DID want to be born.

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It originally dates back to Ancient Greece.
There's some guy called Thomas over here who was in the news who basically thinks human life is purposeless and wants to blow a hole in the side of the earth which kind of goes against what most anti natalists believe.
His idea of blowing a hole in the side of the earth - he imagines a big red button that would end human life and says he'd "press that in an instant" - is actually highly controversial because of a key anti-natalist principle: consent.
Put simply, it's the idea that creating or destroying life requires the consent of the person who will be born or die.

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If people don't want kids then that's fine. The people who do will continue to. It reminds me of the movie "Noah" with Russell Crowe. They are supposed to be the last living people so each son was assigned who they'd bury until the last son dies. Then a pregnancy happens and Noah goes bat shit because the plan was ruined.

Anti-natalism?

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