“Stop having kids!” That’s the message from the antinatalist group aptly named Stop Having Kids.
Its site explains its beliefs, saying: “Stop Having Kids acknowledges that there is an unconscionable amount of needless suffering, injustice, and death in the world – with birth serving as the catalyst for it all. As a result, it is a moral imperative that we strive to minimize and prevent (not through coercion, pressure, or force) as many new lives as possible.”
A moral imperative? I don’t think that phrase means what they think it means.
Antinatalists see life not as a gift or a blessing, but as a burden – on parents, on the environment, or on communities in general. Some who ascribe to this belief argue that the sufferings that human beings endure are so terrible that it would be better if people never existed in the first place…
So, it raises the questions: Where does a world view like this come from? How is it that people have developed such disgust for babies? Read more…