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A community about anti-natalism
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Yeah, it's a death cult through and through. I get some people chose to be child free, but people relate themselves as anti-natalism ain't just about that.
I'm not exactly antinatalist, but I'm somewhat sympathetic to their position. The way I see it is this: humanity's effect on nature is on the average, harmful.
We've been very successful as a species, but at the cost of a lot of others that weren't able to cope with our success. Perhaps some species which are useful to us—sometimes just by being cute, have learned to live with us, or have learned to live despite us, have managed to thrive. But for one species that gained our protection, how many others have disappeared with no one caring?
If that's not bad enough, I don't think that the average individual human being is thriving. We've destroyed a lot only to build depressing cubicles for us to rot in.
I don't think it's worth it.
Having a child means condemning them into an ever worsening world. And I don't think I'll be able to properly equip my child to even have a smidge of a chance of being "well-off", healthy or even happy.
However, our innate instincts, as well as societal and other pressures pushes people to have children even when it's not going to end well for the children as well as their parents. Antinatalism is a counterbalance to this pressure.
If you think deathcult is a counterbalance to the world then i think you need to see a therapy for that. What is this, Attack on Titan?
I tried to give you an overview of how someone might be sympathetic to their views, but I should have known that you're not receptive to such.
And yeah, if you give me money for the expenses needed for that all-curing therapy, sure, why not? However, you might need that for yourself.
What you've described is simply a deathcult, but from your perspective lol. Just because you sympathise with them doesn't make them less of a deathcult.
Because i'm not receptive toward the deathcultist idea?
Sure, sure. Whatever you say.