Antinatalism

The case against babies

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Antinatalism: David Benatar’s Asymmetry Argument for Why it’s Wrong to Have Children | Philosophy Break David Benatar’s ‘asymmetry argument’ suggests that, in virtually all cases, it’s wrong to create new life. This article discusses his antinatalist position, as well as common arguments against it.

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I wanted to know if having a kid on a burning planet was right. I found that antinatalism is seriously taboo | Bri Lee Society has come a long way in making space for maternal ambivalence and the childfree movement, but those frameworks ask whether we want to have children, not whether we should

I wanted to know if having a kid on a burning planet was right. I found that antinatalism is seriously taboo | Life and style | The Guardian share.google/7UszTOFTy08y...

Just sayin'.

Don’t panic about the global fertility crash www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Shrinking states: are we on a path to depopulation? – podcast How should we be thinking about population decline? In episode one of a two-part series, Madeleine Finlay speaks to Dean Spears, assistant professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin, ...

I have not had a chance to listen to this myself.

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New South Korea data reveals scale of population decline The country recorded only one-third as many births last year as it did 30 years earlier, the report shows.

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Chile's plunging birth rate may foreshadow future in U.S. Chilean families are having only one child on average. U.S. birthrates are also dropping but it's unclear whether the U.S. will follow into the growing group of "very low" birthrate countries.

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The U.S. fertility rate reached a new low in 2024, CDC data shows New federal data shows the fertility rate in the U.S. dropped to an all-time low in 2024 with less than 1.6 kids per woman.

The U.S. fertility rate reached a new low in 2024, CDC data shows | PBS News

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Utah sees sharpest fertility rate decline in nation as costs of parenthood increase The number of children born to mothers in Utah has plummeted in recent years, declining faster than in any other state, according to a study by Value Penguin.T

Utah sees sharpest fertility rate decline in nation as costs of parenthood increase

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The U.S. birth rate is falling fast. Why? It's complicated : Consider This from NPR The total fertility rate is a small number with big consequences.It measures how many babies, on average, each woman will have over her lifetime. And for a population to remain stable - flat, no growt...

The U.S. birthrate is falling, for many reasons : Consider This from NPR

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We are the scourge of the earth.

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Why Don't I Want Kids? It's a complex world and there are many reasons to question parenthood.

Why Don't I Want Kids?

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The Population Crisis Is Here | National Review The high school class of 2025 is the largest in American history, but it may hold the record forever.

The “population crisis” they fear is fewer workers, consumers, and soldiers—not extinction.
We’ve shattered Earth’s limits, but we’re too busy mourning GDP to see the collapse we’ve set in motion.

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I am the way into the city of woe.
I am the way to a forsaken people.
I am the way into eternal sorrow.
Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here.

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Japan urged to use gloomier population forecasts after plunge in births Number of children born in 2024 already worse than median forecast for 2039

Japan urged to use gloomier population forecasts after plunge in births

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World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says Hundreds of millions of people are not able to have the number of children they want, the UN warns.

The good news just keeps rolling in.

World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says

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Japan’s fertility rate hits record low TOKYO — Japan’s fertility rate declined in 2024 for the ninth consecutive year, reaching another historical low that underscores the immense challenge facing the government as it attempts ...

Japan's fertility rate hits record low

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The message is good but the dialogue moves a little too fast. You want people to absorb the message but it's hard to do that when you move on from one point to the next without allowing people to grasp it.

Russia classifies population data as birth rates plunge to 200-year low Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov has said reviving the nation's birth rate is one of Russia's "top priorities."

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Absolutely true, but it does not change the veracity of his statement.

Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.

— Edward Abbey

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If destruction is violence, creation, too, is violence. Procreation, therefore, involves violence. The creation of what is bound to perish certainly involves violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Thanks.

Our current fertility rate isn't high enough for humanity to survive A new study finds that a fertility rate of 2.7 children per woman, not 2.1, may be needed to avoid long-term population extinction.

This is really good news, although the author is less enthusiastic about the outcome than I am.

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Our current fertility rate isn't high enough for humanity to survive

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If you are able to get pregnant, do not ever want to be, and are worried about losing access to critical Healthcare under this administration, here is a list of doctors who will not fight you on being sterilized.

Love y'all. Please be safe out there.

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Japan sees record drop in population – DW – 04/14/2025 For the fourteenth year running, Japan's population has slumped to a record low. The non-foreign population dropped by nearly 900,000 — an unprecedented fall.

Japan sees record drop in population

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Russia's birth rates predicted to hit record low The plunging figures indicate that Russian authorities' attempts to boost the birth rate have had almost no effect, a Russian demographer said.

Just in case you need a little good news today.

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Russia's Birth Rates Predicted To Hit Record Low

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The real world is simply too terrible to admit. It tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday decay and die. Culture changes all of this, makes man seem important, vital to the universe, immortal in some ways. — Ernest Becker #quotes