This one right here, I see this over and over again in western left circles, Engels pwned Malthus in Anti-Dühring, Marx saw its flaws, why can't we? Avoid having kids because you don't want to or can't, not because you're afraid of the future. Yes, with climate change is going to be ugly, but if we give up and collectively die how can we fight against it? Life is full of unknowns.
What's malthusian about it? Malthusianism is about lowering birth rates, antinatalism is a philosophical position about the morality of bringing conscious life into existence.
A lot of people here seem to not like antinatalism but also seem to know very little about it....
The implications of believing reproduction is an immoral thing definitely won't lead to malthusianism. No sir. So way are those things that go hand in hand.
Antinatalism is a tool that can be used in mathusian practice. An attempt to make a moral argument against reproduction. Antinataliam is secular abstinence.
You are correct it's a moral argument against reproduction. I'm confused about what make it abstinence? It's abstaining from having kids I guess...
Unless your Relationship is strained, that is the only time to have a child
Honestly I was going to adopt but now I might spawn a couple of my own just to spite you.
I was gowing to redOWOce my mweat conswomption but now I'm going to eat an EXTRA hamburger just for you!
i hear that if you have kids you then have to deal with their shit.
Well 69fart69, it all started when I was born. Basically, who the fuck asked? Sure as hell wasn't me.
I got a vasectomy years ago and it feels good knowing that millions of years of my evolutionary genealogy ends with me. Get fucked australopithecus.
Antinatalists think that because people stub their toes and it hurts nothing should exist
Boss says don’t have kids since it will only cause work disruption and increase your company’s healthcare costs. Work is all the family you need
Isn't this a contradiction of capitalism?
An individual capitalist wouldn't want his workers to have children so they can exploit more fully. However the capitalist class as a whole wants workers to have plenty of kids so that there is always a large supply of labor keep cost down.
Nah, capitalism tells us that we must have continuous "growth", and that includes population, which is evident when wh*toids flip their shit when an imperialist country like Italy or Japan has a declining population.
Ok so don’t consume art, eat good food, travel, have hobbies, or do anything that would increase growth. Deprive yourself of all joy as long as it sticks it to capitalism. This is the purest form of socialism and not a stupid self-own
Just have 2 kids, boom, problem solved. Declining but stable population.
Imagine thinking it's a good idea to bring new life into hellworld. Name something more selfish. I'll wait
Seeing a hungry dog on the side of the road and you have a 10 piece chicken nuggets and you don't even give the dog a single nug
