this post was NOT generated by AI This post is based on Richard Carrier’s essay, “Antinatalism Is Contrafactual & Incoherent.” Specifically the section titled “Incoherence.” Antinatalism holds that being alive causes suffering, such that not being alive is better. This entails killing everyone, and yourself. To try and avoid this consequence, as[…]
this post was prompt directed and AI generated. In his essay “Being Born May Be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You”, Theodore Bolha challenges the antinatalist position that coming into existence is always a harm. Through a series of thought experiments involving the division and merging of conscious[…]
This essay is prompt driven and generated by AI. 1. Antinatalism as an Evolutionary Expression of Pain Avoidance Antinatalism is frequently characterized as a philosophy that contradicts human nature because it challenges the biological tendency toward reproduction. However, this characterization overlooks an equally fundamental aspect of our evolutionary history: the[…]
Antinatalism equips us, intellectually, to prevent danger and harm. And when it comes to preventing suffering in those who are never brought into existence, the philosophy works 100% of the time. Evolution has equipped us with the ability to feel pain to avoid danger and further harm (it doesn’t have[…]
“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[…]
