Have you ever heard of Antinatalism?

[Judycat]

I don't care what people believe anymore. Trouble is I've run into plenty of them online who refer to me as a Breeder and my husband as a Sperm Donor because we've pushed three children out into the world. Isn't that nice? Too bad their parents weren't Antinatalists.

 

[Paco Dennis]

I am quite sure that we will continue to have our babies, at least until this turns into North Korea. Not.

Really there is nothing new here. This attitude has been around for centuries in different places and situations. Doesn't seem to have much of an effect...8 billion us now?

 

[HazyDavey]

I'm a bit confused and might be missing something here but..
It seems that these folks who are for Antinatalism, wouldn't be here to advocate their belief in the first place if it was followed?
Do I have that right.. ?

 

[VaughanJB]

I don't care what people believe anymore. Trouble is I've run into plenty of them online who refer to me as a Breeder and my husband as a Sperm Donor because we've pushed three children out into the world. Isn't that nice? Too bad their parents weren't Antinatalists.

Was this on a forum? Oh deary me.

I'm a bit confused and might be missing something here but..
It seems that these folks who are for Antinatalism, wouldn't be here to advocate their belief in the first place if it was followed?
Do I have that right.. ?

It's not about preaching the belief, or acceptance, to others. It's about facing a reality as an individual has come to know it. The goal of such a person isn't to make everyone else feel as they do.

 

[Remy]

People believe all kinds of things. I have to wonder why I got the mother and life I got. I believe I was born bad.

I've been looked at weird because I have no kids, never married. Live a month in that house I grew up in. You might get it then.

If someone couldn't have children, they are thought of differently. I worked with a woman who had a terrible number of miscarriages. Never had a child. Her life went on. She was divorced. She said she wondered if they would have stayed together if they had kids. Who knows. She also drank too much. For what reason I don't know. Often there is one. Because she didn't have kids?

This belief is a bit strange. None of us had control over what we got for 18 years and the adverse effects onward. Or did we? It's why I say my mother should have died in the Dresden bombing and why I came to the conclusion years later that when she called me to her bed when I was 9 or 10 and announced she'd be dead by morning to get a reaction out of me, perhaps she should have been. In a few hours she was tired of laying in bed, was up and forgot her psychological abuse. The good mother carried on.

 

[Judycat]

Was this on a forum? Oh deary me.



It's not about preaching the belief, or acceptance, to others. It's about facing a reality as an individual has come to know it. The goal of such a person isn't to make everyone else feel as they do.

Yes it was on other forums I've visited. Some were moderated quite differently than this one. As I said I don't care what others believe. It is interesting, however, to hear what drives people to believe as they do. I am rather direct about asking and usually uncover what I want to know.

 

[VaughanJB]

People believe all kinds of things. I have to wonder why I got the mother and life I got. I believe I was born bad.

I've been looked at weird because I have no kids, never married. Live a month in that house I grew up in. You might get it then.

If someone couldn't have children, they are thought of differently. I worked with a woman who had a terrible number of miscarriages. Never had a child. Her life went on. She was divorced. She said she wondered if they would have stayed together if they had kids. Who knows. She also drank too much. For what reason I don't know. Often there is one. Because she didn't have kids?

This belief is a bit strange. None of us had control over what we got for 18 years and the adverse effects onward. Or did we? It's why I say my mother should have died in the Dresden bombing and why I came to the conclusion years later that when she called me to her bed when I was 9 or 10 and announced she'd be dead by morning to get a reaction out of me, perhaps she should have been. In a few hours she was tired of laying in bed, was up and forgot her psychological abuse. The good mother carried on.

The number of people who think less of others because they don't have kids is amazing. Like having children is only about gains, and no losses and missed opportunities. There are a lot of routes through life.

On this very forum I was told that if I hadn't got any kids, I shouldn't comment on topics relating to children. You couldn't make it up.

 

[Tish]

Oh okay, so that's what it's called.
I have heard of it but find it rather ludicrous.

 

[StillLearning]

I don't care what people believe anymore. Trouble is I've run into plenty of them online who refer to me as a Breeder and my husband as a Sperm Donor because we've pushed three children out into the world. Isn't that nice? Too bad their parents weren't Antinatalists.

I worked with a woman who would call other women including me a Breeder and then walk away. I just figured she had something going on. She was never approachable to get to know her. Didn’t bother me if she had kids or not. Not my business.

 

[David777]

As world overpopulation increases in this nascent telecom communication era, such sad views will greatly increase. Ideally within our vast universe, with a tenth as many homo sapiens on our limited world, Earth would be considered by intelligent entities elsewhere as a relative ideal paradise.

Life on Earth is incredibly precious and of value for some of us as is loving human family life.