“Antinatalists’ views about “suffering” are intellectually stunted, immature and myopic.” This comes from Laura Hollis an attorney and university professor, as well as a nationally syndicated political columnist based in the US. She writes from a Catholic perspective and frequently defends the sanctity of life from conception to natural death.[…]
Written with the aid of AI. On a spring morning in May 2025, a 25-year-old named Guy Edward Bartkus parked a sedan packed with hundreds of pounds of homemade explosives outside an IVF fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California. When he detonated the car, the massive blast gutted the building,[…]
30,879,230 people have died this year as I’m writing this. They say antinatalism is a memento mori, but death is literally all around us. Culture, media, academia, war, government and our personal lives are arguably saturated with it. But as Peter Zappffe argues, most of us anchor and distract ourselves[…]
Looking southeast from my balcony, one landmark stands out: the massive Richard L. Hearn Generating Station. Built in 1951, as a response to soaring post-WWII demand for energy, the station boasted eight chimneys that spewed ash and smog into downtown Toronto and surrounding neighbourhoods. The environmental movement of the sixties[…]
A life worth starting and a life worth continuing are two very different things. The claim that, if procreation is allowed, the resulting offspring would want to continue to live, ignores some obvious inconsistencies. The most glaring would be that the infant offspring cannot, in any meaningful way, express consent[…]
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[…]
