Anti-Natalism And Its Concept
“It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide a purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!”
- Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept
Talking about the population and its conditions in the present time, it has become a highly discussed topic of concern. Despite numerous initiatives and measures are taken by the government to stabilize the population still the perilous number of births still increases gradually. This issue is highly attracting the concerns of people and it mostly prevails in the rural areas. The deprived sections of the society bear children out of their need for money and survival as they get more earning hands added in their family. The children are not allowed to study and are made to earn at a very early age. Anti-Natalism is thus a concept which talks about abstaining people from reproducing children because of their need to earn a livelihood. The concept of Anti-Natalism is highly recommended in today’s era because children are born for acquiring a roof and some steady income by the poor and deprived. They hardly bother about restricting the family size.
“It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place.”
- David Benatar
The moral philosopher David Benatar offered a programmatic defense of anti-natalism—the idea that procreating is morally wrong because of human lives are, on balance, so awful that such lives are not worth starting in his book “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence.” Human are deprived of internal happiness and not only this they also lead an abominable and vile life but they believe in avoiding their pain rather than avoiding pleasure. The philosopher also adds that the only way to avoid the increasing numbers of people living an awful life is the extinction of humans.
After assuming the current situation and the income ratios of the world the world can only remain stable and committed if it adopts the concept of Anti-Natalism and starts paying attention towards its concept and logical structure.
