• Arthur_Leywin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Antinatalism. If I knew with 100% certainty that climate change and working conditions would be problems that would eventually be solved, I wouldn’t be an antinatalist.

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        1 year ago

        It’s the belief that’s it’s immoral to create a child. This is a pretty broad definition so even I might disagree with other antinatalists while still being one.

        Me being antinatalist is conditional and the condition is if the world is becoming worse for regular people. Others believe humans are evil or are a cancer and while I can sympathize to some degree, I think it’s a step too far. XD

        Having said that antinatalism and child-free are not mutually exclusive because an antinatalist could adopt a child.

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          I see, very interesting. I think I can gel with some aspects of antinatalism, like in your example of the world becoming worse for regular people yet still being open to adoption.

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        Why wouldn’t this always be true, since we all suffer? How do you determine the max level of expected suffering to make it moral to have kids?