Anti-Natalism is a philosophical view that reproduction is immoral.
Anti-Natalists have a variety of reasons for their beliefs, including:
Children's suffering
Overpopulation
Environmental concerns
The idea that creating life cannot achieve the consent of the person who will be born
Do Natalists care about any of these? Of course they do, but most of them simply believe the threshold is in a different place.
If the world had 80 trillion people on it, would you not be an Anti-Natalist? If the world was down to one thousand people, would many Anti-Natalists not be more Natalist?
Our ego desires the world to be more like a binary than a scale, and all too often this makes us believe we have radically different views than others. Consider an empathetic approach that many Anti-Natalists likely simply consider the factors a greater risk than you. It is usually that simple.
The real interesting philosophical question to debate is how many humans should live on Earth for humanity’s sake, the Earth itself, animals, planets, among other considerations.
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