If you are in your twenties and you’ve parents or elderly relatives, chances are that you’ve heard these phrases, “when am I going to become a grandparent?” or “when will you give us a niece/nephew”. If you are an Antinatalist, this is supposed to trigger you because bringing more life to this world is not something they believe in.
According to Antinatalism: Procreation is bullshit, Bringing kids to this world is vain because it is full of misery and it’s not worth it and Humanity is a burden on this world if nothing else.
It’s normal for people to not question and just following the footsteps of their ancestors and society in general. If the general population is in favour of bringing more life to existence by bearing children, then they don’t complain, question and argue. On the other hand, being an Antinatalist is meant to be aware of your decision making from the perspective of the children that you are planning to bring to this world, “cruel world” according to them actually.
The main questions raised by Childfree man of the year 2017 said to an interview on www.internationalchildfreeday.com are following,
- Would it be good for my child to have me as a parent?
- Am I capable of guaranteeing my child a good future?
- Is the world now and the foreseeable future good enough for my child?
That’s a very sensible thing to think about even if you are not an antinatalist yourself. Although many people do plan a lot before they procreate. It involves college funds, insurance of different sorts and voting for people who will protect the interests of young ones in the future. Still, that’s a mild way of looking at things and Antinatalists are nothing but hardcore in their beliefs, even though they don’t have a formal belief most of the time.
One argument that’s put forward by most antinatalists is that, “ while the child is alive, he or she has to see their parents suffer from ailment and fragility of old age, is it a great experience for them?”
Children are often thought to be indebted to their parents for life for providing them shelter and food, when they were infants and little kids. One of the critical arguments of Childfree people is that parents are the ones responsible for bringing those kids to the world and an unborn child is out of ability to request his or her parents to birth them. Although they would not be going through the miseries of life if they were never born. So the debt is on the parents and they are responsible for providing the best life experience to their offspring. It is against the ethos of the Antinatalist community to put the kids under the impression that they owe their existence to their parents, when in fact they never asked for it.
Although this is an absolute pessimistic approach towards anything that we have ever observed, it does not hurt humanity in a way.
Let’s suppose, 50 percent of the whole population on earth becomes a staunch believer of the argument of not being born. That will yield fewer people in the world. The thing about this idea is that it can inflict so many people but it will never be the whole world so the people who believe in extending life to see what the future holds for us, it’s a good thing as well. Whoever opposes the idea of life will definitely be finished by the idea itself. On the other hand, the believer of extending life will always have more people carrying their words even after they are dead. That’s a predicament Antinatalists have to consider even if they are successful in persuading a lot of people, it’s still not enough.
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