this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2025
15 points (82.6% liked)
Ask Lemmygrad
918 readers
90 users here now
A place to ask questions of Lemmygrad's best and brightest
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
That's an extremely simplistic and slightly childish interpretation.
If anything, I despise the voluntary human extinction movement. That doesn't preclude being smart about having biological children, and it sure as fuck doesn't stop be from being a communist.
Having biological children is probably inherently selfish, but that doesn't make having children an inherently bad or evil thing. That's my entire point.
Who cares if it is selfish or not, why does it matter at all? In the end it has still nothing to do with Anti-Natalism. The name itself is nomen est omen and says everything needed to know. Your point is not anti-natalism but a mere moral observation, why life is creating more life. You can be easily misunderstood if you confuse this terms
I wasn't confusing the terms, and I and lots of people can and should care. That's why I reiterate that I take a softer approach. I think more people should be aware that it's perfectly okay to not have biological children, and that choosing to have biological children isn't inherently good or altruistic, and does have some element of selfishness.
I figure that if people understood all of that upfront (and ofc living in a socialist society) that child abuse will drastically decrease when all the cards are out on the table, so to speak.
As the saying goes, "every child needs a parent, but not every parent needs a child".
I call myself a partial anti-natalist, the same as classifying myself as a Marxist-Leninist, it's a specific addition, alteration or subset of a larger category or umbrella.
Most Marxists, for instance, wouldn't want to be associated with Pol Pot.
I and lots of other people didn't consent to being born, even if that is a ridiculous-sounding claim. Obviously, no one can consent to that, but every life should be treated with the upmost care and possibility, and life should be something that everyone can take part in and have a good time. And sometimes I do regret that I exist, even if that sounds stupid. But I think even most people with depression and shit can generally agree that we'd rather be born, than not.
I maintain that anti-natalism isn't nearly the same as wanting all of humanity dead, or that there aren't eventual positives to birth.
You aren’t a communist as you reject dialectical materialism by upholding an ideological framework that analyzes non-beings on the same level as beings. That’s not materialism but religion.
You're a clown and I won't dignify your nonsense word salad with a reply.
Ah yes, anything that you disagree with is “word salad”. What a fantastic way to analyze everything. I’m sure that will lead to correct understandings of the world…
You're just projecting and digging yourself a deeper hole, quit your coping and don't be a douche.
No clue how any of that is relevant…. I have most certainly been accusing everyone’s answers as being “word salad” because I can’t read a single sentence and I most certainly “coping”. (What about as I’m not positing a position as occupying a different niche or position than it actually does to defend ideological positions that are in contradiction to one another? I’m not so sure but I definitely am doing it as another user on Lemmy said so)
I literally explained my position and my view multiple times, your strawmanning and refusing to understand isn't my fault or my problem.