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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
(Score: 3, Insightful) by sjames on Sunday February 10 2019, @06:34AM
In that first one, it wasn't a blank. The couple thought a thick book would stop the bullet.
On a related note, it appears that the prosecutor accepts that story as the truth, but for some reason figured the guilt of accidentally killing her boyfriend and the father of her child somehow isn't enough to pay for an undisputed unintentional death that he was fully complicit in. So she's going on trial and facing 10 years in prison (and bizarrely, $20,999 in fines!) because that will obviously make it all better.