The poor among us live better lives than kings and elites of the 19th century. The poor have running water, medicine, electricity, safe childbirth, etc. while a king in 1850 had no pain medicine, no flushing toilets, high infant mortality, no cars, etc. Even as our population booms (8.2 billion[…]
I’ve been told that if I could discuss antinatalism, doesn’t mean that I should. I wasn’t presented with compelling reasons for remaining silent on the subject but here is why I believe talking about antinatalism is not only appropriate but necessary. To be clear, antinatalism is unlikely to achieve widespread[…]
Do Antinatalists Hate Children? Being an antinatalist does not equate to hating children. Although there are numerous memes and online posts that disparage children, these do not reflect a serious philosophical discussion of antinatalism. The philosophy itself focuses on the issue of birth, which pertains to everyone, not just children.[…]
Many people react negatively to antinatalism, often because they perceive it as a philosophy that results in the end of humanity—”there will be no more people.” This reaction invites a deeper question: why is the absence of future generations inherently bad? Antinatalism, argues that by refraining from bringing a person[…]
In modern readings of consciousness, we find an interconnectedness that’s exclusive of autonomy and free will. We’re left powerless but for the conventional, albeit false, “I” we encounter in our experiential lives. So how then, do we count the “I” blameless for what occurs in the world when even our[…]
I tend to agree with Armin Navabi on most things… But this is absolutely untrue. Someone or something that doesn’t exist CANNOT be deprived of anything. By Armin Navabi’s interpretation, we “deprive” countless people of “pleasure” everyday through contraception, abortion and family planning. By his view, we’re all immoral by[…]
This is far from scientific, but after watching this interview (see below) I wandered into my own life as a genetic/evolutionary being. I have a mental disability (I should look into the evolutionary principles behind mental illness) which I continually question and wonder about. I’m also unable to work in[…]
I’ll be comparing two laws that reside in different domains and different jurisdictions, so I’m not necessarily speaking in legal terms and mostly in the context of secularism as a principle. In Canada, Quebec’s governing party, the CAQ, recently passed Bill 21 (a secularism law) that bans the wearing of[…]
In December of 2018, The Globe and Mail published an article outlining the new trend of “church planting” stating: “Yu insists he isn’t trying to hide Mercy City’s affiliation with the Evangelical Free Church of Canada, but says there’s no need to advertise it because the people who attend the church[…]
Twice or three times I’ve been to an inconvenient laundromat a couple blocks down from my house. But you know, when you’re there waiting on the laundry to get done by the machines and the smell of lint and fabric softener is in the air, you need something to do.[…]