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Summary

IMPORTANT: Click on this link first Antinatalism, as distinct from being merely “child free”, is the view that humanity is best served by (perhaps even deserves) its own extinction. This view is rare,...

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History of Antinatalism

IMPORTANT: Click on this link firstPart IModern Antinatalism began in the 19th Century, promoted by German philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Philipp Mainländer. Schopenhauer's position said that...

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Forms of Antinatalism

IMPORTANT: Click on this link first!Part IISummaryAntinatalism can take at least four forms: ecological, philanthropic, teleological (purpose-based, or in this case a lack thereof), and misanthropic...

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Benatar's Cost-Benefit Approach

IMPORTANT: Click on This Link First! Part IIIThe Approach: Utilitarianism-Based Cost-Benefit AnalysisBenatar argues from a Utilitarianism-based cost/benefit position, especially from a hedonistic...

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Personal Reasons

IMPORTANT: Click on This Link First! Part IVNote to those who just discovered this page:I do NOT, repeat, do NOT support murder, genocide or any other kind of involuntary cessation of life on the...

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Conclusion

IMPORTANT: Click on this link  before you read this post. So far as I know, Antinatalism assumes as true at least one of the following four claims. Keep in mind that despite the harsh tone of each...

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Addendum: Philanthropic Antinatalism Must Stand for Positives, not Negatives

It’s very easy to embrace antinatalism for the wrong reasons, ones that are based too heavily on emotions rather than on data, facts, logic, and reason. It’s easier still to let those kinds of reasons...

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Major Rewrite Underway

It's been over a year since I last posted on here, but it's not like I've been totally absent from speaking out in favor of antinatalism (commenting on the various blogs, and on YouTube - the latter...

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In the Beginning...

…,there was nothing, depending on what you mean by it. Certainly there was nothing in the common everyday sense of the word – nothing that could shine or reflect visible light or other segments of the...

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The Pleasure Principle

The last post briefly described how our survival instinct emerged; essentially stating that it evolved due to random chance mutations within the DNA molecule and nothing more.  This mutation produced...

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Pain - The Negative Motivator

The last blog entry dealt with pleasure as a positive motivator in keeping us alive and to reproducing. It also dealt with pleasure as one part of a two-pronged strategy some types DNA use to...

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Disgust - The Unreliable Emotion

Disgust is a very strong aversion to a person, thing, action, event or other phenomenon – usually based on its lack morality, aesthetics, or popularity. It is rarely thought of as a form of pain, but...

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The Benatarian Asymmetry

South African antinatalist philosopher David Benatar, author of Better Never to Have Been, asserts that coming into existence is always a harm because (a) suffering is an inevitable part of life,(b) a...

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Front-Loading Some Rebuttals - Responses to Common Inital Argments Against...

Last Updated August 13, 2012 Just as with any other philosophical, political, or religious belief system, Antinatalism has a potentially infinite number of objections.  Because of this, it’s...

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Why Not Commit Suicide? (Part 1)

Last Updated April 3, 2013DigestThe reason not to commit suicide is based on both grief study research and the view that the rights of the individual sometimes are inferior to the rights of others....

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Why Not Commit Suicide? (Part 2)

Last Updated December 26, 2012DigestWith every suicide, there are many losers and few, if any winners.  Even with the latter, the gains accruing to them as a result of an antinatalists suicide are...

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