Is “antinatalism” some kind of organized movement or something? Because I think the reason that they’re getting downvotes is because it comes off as saying “your personal choice to not have kids makes you a eugenicist and a Nazi, kids are the best thing to ever happen to you in life and everybody wants them, even if they say they don’t.” It certainly came off that way to me, but I’ve never heard the term before. I just don’t want to bring another life into this hellhole of a country on this burning world that we continue to do nothing to fix.
I don’t think there’s some central antinatalist org yet, but there are smaller organized groups. I first encountered the whole philosophy when a group called Stop Having Kids put up billboards and tabled on the street here in Portland.
I think your stance on childbirth is fine, it’s the same as mine. It’s a decision for ourselves that we don’t feel we’re prepared to equip a new human to operate in the world when it’s in this state. But take our stance and make it an organization, if it’s anything more than a support organization for people who’ve already made that choice then it’s going to be about telling others to not have children too, and arguing that they’re doing an ethical wrong by having kids.
Is “antinatalism” some kind of organized movement or something? Because I think the reason that they’re getting downvotes is because it comes off as saying “your personal choice to not have kids makes you a eugenicist and a Nazi, kids are the best thing to ever happen to you in life and everybody wants them, even if they say they don’t.” It certainly came off that way to me, but I’ve never heard the term before. I just don’t want to bring another life into this hellhole of a country on this burning world that we continue to do nothing to fix.
I don’t think there’s some central antinatalist org yet, but there are smaller organized groups. I first encountered the whole philosophy when a group called Stop Having Kids put up billboards and tabled on the street here in Portland.
I think your stance on childbirth is fine, it’s the same as mine. It’s a decision for ourselves that we don’t feel we’re prepared to equip a new human to operate in the world when it’s in this state. But take our stance and make it an organization, if it’s anything more than a support organization for people who’ve already made that choice then it’s going to be about telling others to not have children too, and arguing that they’re doing an ethical wrong by having kids.