Meet the Antinatalists, Who Hope Humans Go Extinct
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Pretty decent article. Better than many I have read on this subject.
I am a 'soft antinatalist' in the sense that I think the philosophy is very likely correct (the 'math' adds up), but it's also not my place to tell other people what to do with their lives.
Not all antinatalists want humans to go extinct entirely. Some of us just want there to be a lot fewer humans.
Those are different goals, so should have different titles. The former should be called human-extinctionists, the latter can remain "anti natalists"
I didn't think I'd be reading an article talking about antinatalism on... Playboy of all places. The Playmates tab is right there, as if to make you forget the article you were just reading. It's just really funny.
Give me something to believe in or I just don't give a fuck. My fellow humans disappoint me, and I'm not going to make meat for the fascist machine.
I am perfectly happy going out on my own terms when life gets too tedious or painful. I'm not concerned with anyone's depopulation pearl clutching because it's literally not my problem.
This is the thing that troubles me, for I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hand in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, where the twin suns sink into the Lake of Hali; and my mind will bear forever the memory of the Pallid Mask.
P-playboy?
You just read it for the article!
He's an asshat. I'm glad I don't know him.
Lol just get a suicide
How does that solve the problem of suffering in the world?
Can't suffer if you're dead. 🤷♂️
Im afraid there's no solution for that matter
There is a solution, though: don't have any children.
Yeah,you just gotta inform 2 billions people living with a few dollars a month. Totally realistic
It's a slow process, but possible.
And living with a few dollars a month will be easier if you don't have kids. Kids are expensive.
This might work in first world countries
For a large part of the humanity raising kids is a way to survive, grown up children,little more than toddlers sometimes, help their families avoid starvation. They haven't the privilege to choose.
And then those children will need to have children to survive when they grow up. And so on with their children, and so on with their children's children... A never-ending cycle of creating more suffering to alleviate your own.
Time to make the selfless choice, tough it out without children, and break the cycle. It will be worse for you, but better for countless future generations who won't have to deal with it anymore.