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posted by mrpg on Saturday February 09 2019, @12:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the sound-crazy-but-hear-me-out dept.

A 27-year-old Indian man plans to sue his parents for giving birth to him without his consent. Mumbai businessman Raphael Samuel told the BBC that it's wrong to bring children into the world because they then have to put up with lifelong suffering. Mr Samuel, of course, understands that our consent can't be sought before we are born, but insists that "it was not our decision to be born". So as we didn't ask to be born, we should be paid for the rest of our lives to live, he argues.

Mr Samuel's belief is rooted in what's called anti-natalism - a philosophy that argues that life is so full of misery that people should stop procreating immediately. This, he says, would gradually phase out humanity from the Earth and that would also be so much better for the planet.

[...] In a statement, his mother Kavita Karnad Samuel explained her response to "the recent upheaval my son has created". "I must admire my son's temerity to want to take his parents to court knowing both of us are lawyers. And if Raphael could come up with a rational explanation as to how we could have sought his consent to be born, I will accept my fault," she said.

BBC:
Indian man to sue parents for giving birth to him

Mr. Samuel's argument sounds a bit entitled but there are philosophical grounds in support of anti-natalism:
Having children is not life-affirming: it's immoral


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @02:15AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @02:15AM (#798653)

    SciFi has two powerful races who never reproduce:
    Star Trek Borg
    Riddick ‘s Necromongers
    https://riddick.fandom.com/wiki/Necromonger_Empire [fandom.com]

  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday February 09 2019, @07:13AM (3 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Saturday February 09 2019, @07:13AM (#798741) Journal

    You forgot, Mormons.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @07:23AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @07:23AM (#798746)

      You forgot, Mormons.

      Magical underwear? Getting your own planet?

      Really, suspension of belief can only go so far...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @10:50AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @10:50AM (#798775)

      If only. It's part of their religion to have huge families and multiple wives. Religions breed like rats because they think their magic sky fucker says so. Of course it is always to keep certain turds in power and to have plenty of children to boink.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @11:29AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @11:29AM (#798780)

        Religions only survive so long as they have believers.
        Children are easy to indoctrinate, so the simplest way to preserve your religion over the long term is for the faithful to indoctrinate lots of children.
        The easiest way to get lots of children to indoctrinate is to make them yourself, so you can keep them in your community.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @07:18AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @07:18AM (#798744)

    Kobali are a bit more... ugh... interesting.

    https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Kobali [fandom.com]