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Abortiondebate
140 Comments
25 Upvotes
17.01.22 15:28
Antinatalists need psychiatric help.
unpopularopinion
11 Comments
5 Upvotes
17.01.22 23:18
WIBTA for not letting my wife take our daughters door?
AmItheAsshole
1316 Comments
3734 Upvotes
17.01.22 19:53
A Satirical Question for the PL people here.
Abortiondebate
119 Comments
24 Upvotes
16.01.22 17:58
- >None. Are you arguing that the difference between these women is that the miscarriage women are doing their duty creating a po...
- >What life would they have without you doing that? None. Are you arguing that the difference between these women is that the...
- Obviously your statement is false. My point is that the mother is not depriving someone of life. If you think that people are some...
- >So you're making an antinatalist argument now? No I'm pointing out why your argument is antinatalist. ​ >They...
- So you're making an antinatalist argument now? I'm sorry but her action are no different than taking the child out of the womb. Th...
- Sure, but everyone will die eventually. You're basically making an antinatalism argument at this point.
collapse
270 Comments
119 Upvotes
17.01.22 15:15
- I'm not having a child anytime soon, I'm just not an anti-natalist nor convinced of it, simply providing some of the non-self serv...
- You can be antinatalist and still pro-adoption. If first world countries largely stopped having children and instead, interested p...
- > Lead by example I say. Stop existing... LoL. Still not antinatalist position. Funny. No argument, buddy. Read the definition...
- Human existence should be discontinued. That's antinatalism. Lead by example I say. Stop existing. Or else you're full of shit.
- > I've put forth my argument already.... Nope. Just random accusations and insinuations. No argument, yet. > ...won't acc...
- > All of your loved ones will die as well, should they just blow their own brains out now and get it over with?... Not an anti...
- you missed the point. people who under non-impending collapse situations suddenly ape antinatalist sentiments. they are not inher...
- Many millions. I'm starting to realize that the central fallacy of antinatalism is a philosophical Dunning-Kreuger effect, where...
- Thanks for your reply. I don't want to debate the semantics extensively, but I think that my use of the term is acceptable. I can'...
- Being childfree ≠ Antinatalism
- Antinatalist is a whole other thing than what you're reading there. Antinatalist is more about life in general not being worth to...
- But what about all of the people who feel the same way that you do? I think that one of the most common antinatalist fallacies is ...
- I don't mean to be pedantic, but there is a difference between believing we're up shit's creek and, so, not wanting to have a chil...
- >just being one with everything and I think that's beautiful. Maybe I'm a dope (I definitely am, but on to the point)...if you...
- The planet is on its way to being inhabitable. What justification do you have to bringing someone into this world just to watch it...
- Indeed. I don't think it's a gotcha as much as it's pointing out that this person-- whether they would've cancelled out their own ...
- I’m ambivalent about antinatalism in the purely philosophical sense, i.e. whether one should create conscious beings in various ...
- Correct. To an antinatalist, this is not the "gotcha" you think it is.
- The purpose and point of antinatalism is to reduce suffering. That's all. Nothing to do with good or evil. It's about sparing an i...
- Antinatalists believe yours is the argument in bad faith. Three things: 1) There is no metric for suffering, you cannot assume h...
- Thing is you can want kids and prefer it if the human population went down. Simply educating women, allowing them into the workfo...
- Right. I'm a gay man so I try to be empathetic about my own antinatalist-ish views with the people around me. I understand there's...
- People, whether they like to hear it or not, produce children for their *own* "selfish" reasons. They desire kids to have somethin...
- I was antinatalist before I was collapse aware. Even then I looked at life and saw that all the pain, suffering and scarcity is no...
- The Buddhist argument for limited natalism ( the Buddha said householders should have children IF they can raise them up, with the...
- >When was life the utopia that antinatalist assume? You are assuming that antinatalists think that it was *ever* OK to reprod...
- Thank you for your reply. I do think that there are quite a few replies in that other thread with explicit antinatalism, but this ...
- It's not necessarily antinatalism (assigning negative value to existing), it's just anti-procreation. The list of reasons why wi...
- I tend to take this stance. When was life the utopia that antinatalist assume? Their logic extends to all of existence not just ri...
- If you’re interested in the attempts to just antinatalism philosophically, here’s a list of sources : Better to never have b...
- Antinatalism is a philosophical stance about fundamentally assigning existence a negative value due to the inevitable suffering in...
- > This is understandable, since it is an inherently pessimistic community No, this community understands math and science, the...
- > How is antinatalism justified? How grim must the outlook be to preclude procreation? You cannot justify having children. Pe...
- Humanity only looks after it's own interests. We are obsessed with our own perceived superiority. In our greed we have ravaged thi...
- >How is antinatalism justified? How grim must the outlook be to preclude procreation? Is overpopulation a factor and, if so, ha...
- Noticed and participated in those comments on the parenthood thread you linked, but took something else away from it. When direc...
AskReddit
55 Comments
3 Upvotes
17.01.22 23:03
If you must, pls raise them to be Vegan. Human beings do not blend in to the Landscape like Animals do. Just take a look around.
vegan
7 Comments
0 Upvotes
17.01.22 21:57
let's discuss controversial topics we deem important
teenagers
46 Comments
1 Upvotes
17.01.22 22:33
Just a thought?
prolife
21 Comments
57 Upvotes
16.01.22 22:47
average redditor is a good person
averageredditor
56 Comments
287 Upvotes
17.01.22 18:28
For Different Trolley Problems our Moral Intuitions May Align with Act-Consequentialism.
philosophy
112 Comments
460 Upvotes
17.01.22 12:12
Disney land
shitposting
802 Comments
75340 Upvotes
17.01.22 14:42
Anyone here a negative utilitarian?
transhumanism
104 Comments
35 Upvotes
17.01.22 02:47
It's my 30th birthday today and nothing like I thought it would be.
TrueOffMyChest
18 Comments
8 Upvotes
17.01.22 19:56
Got my new turkey hunting ride today, I’m pumped
ebikes
89 Comments
104 Upvotes
13.01.22 01:16
About natural law and sex "ordered towards" procreation
Catholicism
32 Comments
8 Upvotes
17.01.22 14:30
"You're welcome. You don't have to pay bills and go to work" lol
funny
108 Comments
3947 Upvotes
17.01.22 20:23
Can I be Christian and Antinatalist?
Christianity
10 Comments
2 Upvotes
17.01.22 20:56
- Oh. I didn't know he thought that way. Thanks for showing me that I was wrong about Antinatalism.
- It is clear many in the early church were anti-natalist. They enthusiastically embraced celibacy, and were not concerned with the ...
- Thanks for the replies. I think I'll step away from Antinatalist.
- >We shouldn't exist. We harm the other animals. It's not right. We should exist. God made the entire Universe, the Earth, and ...
- I don't think Christianity is compatible with anti-natalism. We \*should\* exist; God placed us here.
- No. Christianity and Antinatalism aren’t reconcilable
Conservative
12 Comments
85 Upvotes
17.01.22 21:09
My only desire in life was to be a parent, the consequences of that are mine to deal with.
collapse
1159 Comments
727 Upvotes
17.01.22 05:04
- Referencing Schopenhauer might impress your PHIL100 classmates. It doesn’t impress me. It’s also irrelevant to what I’m say...
- Thank you for this, as a white man living in Europe (not in a 1st world country unfortunately, but still in pretty much good condi...
- Yaaaaa I’m not going to argue with someone who thinks who thinks exactly how historical references of race and reproductive choi...
- Jesus go read some Schopenhauer or Mainländer, Cioran or any of the 19th and 20th century European pessimist philosophers Hell a...
- Naaaah bro.... This ain't it... This is copium at best. At worst...lemme save that language for r/antinatalism
- All this anti-natalism shit is mostly just permanently-infantilized weirdos who are trapped in an algorithmic doom-scrolling loop....
- Antinatalism is a legitimate school of thought. But I agree that we don’t need the rhetorical venom here to make antinatalism’...
- > Whether you realize it or not, you’re erasing hundreds of years of suffering and difficult decisions and reducing No. I t...
- r/antinatalism
- Im not arguing that refusing to give birth is disgusting. Im well aware of what women do in desperate situations What I’m upset...
- You don't have to convince this sub why you're rationalizing reproducing. It's rather idiotic. It's just like rationalizing reprod...
- Friend, just because I signal my virtues doesn't mean that others aren't as well. Surprising as it may be, I think you'll find tha...
- Refusing to bear children at the behest of white slave owners is not "gross" or "antinatalism", it's just history. In fact, many s...
- You do realize they forcibly bred us, right? You do realize that they would take two slaves and force them to have sex? If not tha...
- You can though, honestly. When they ask, you can tell them you don't feel comfortable and ready with whay it means to be a child i...
- Good job. Don’t listen to the doomer anti-Natalist folks on here, if they were intellectually consistent they’d jump off a bri...
- I’m nihilistic and collapse aware but I refuse to fall into this pit of anti-natalism. I have no hate for the people who do beli...
- I love my sons but wish I hadn't had them. Not for me, but for them. I planned them when I was too young. I didn't know my first w...
mildlyinfuriating
4 Comments
5 Upvotes
17.01.22 18:11
If a Kween is abusing someone, it's obviously the scrote's fault
FemaleDatingStratPros
10 Comments
56 Upvotes
17.01.22 18:03
Feeling guilty about wanting to be a mom because of climate change
TwoXChromosomes
444 Comments
784 Upvotes
17.01.22 05:32
wtf
ChildFreeCircleJ
21 Comments
34 Upvotes
17.01.22 16:56
No vaccine, no French Open for Djokovic, says French Sports ministry
LockdownSkepticism
331 Comments
338 Upvotes
17.01.22 12:54
Suffering Weighted more than Happiness
Pessimism
14 Comments
16 Upvotes
15.01.22 21:36
Facebook
tokkiefeesboek
28 Comments
47 Upvotes
17.01.22 17:22
Afghanistan in Freefall: Deadly U.S. Sanctions Blamed for Shocking Humanitarian Crisis
collapse
539 Comments
719 Upvotes
16.01.22 14:44
I’m only 19
collapse
165 Comments
181 Upvotes
17.01.22 15:13
Discussion Thread
neoliberal
7319 Comments
0 Upvotes
17.01.22 07:00
The only moral abortion is my abortion.
Abortiondebate
74 Comments
20 Upvotes
17.01.22 13:04
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subreddit_simulacrum
10 Comments
1 Upvotes
17.01.22 16:36
I have tokophobia and am looking for some advice on how to overcome it (from moms).
beyondthebump
9 Comments
1 Upvotes
17.01.22 03:00
Carnist food standards [My Art]
vegan
13 Comments
100 Upvotes
17.01.22 16:32
Parasites
lostgeneration
870 Comments
9777 Upvotes
16.01.22 12:34
I'm going out of my way to park here from now on
FuckYouKaren
79 Comments
1876 Upvotes
16.01.22 21:40
New album rumor spreading in China (Caused by FOB‘s Twitter on NFT) LOL they seem to believe
FallOutBoy
12 Comments
33 Upvotes
17.01.22 04:47
One of the World’s Wealthiest Oil Exporters Is Becoming Unlivable
collapse
128 Comments
713 Upvotes
16.01.22 18:24
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