Thu Mar 31, 2022 – 10:18 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — “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.
The site goes on to say that the group exists to “normalize antinatalism” and that it believes that “there are no reasons for having children that aren’t self-focused (besides through force) and that having children is unethical and irrational.”
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