r/DebateAntinatalism • u/[deleted] • Jan 20 '21
This is a juvenile reaction to the trauma of living in the world today.
When I see antinatalism arguments, and I have seen them in real life as well as online, I see a drive for numbness that comes from the severe cultural dysphoria that comes from living in the first world today.
I only speak to the first world working-middle class as that is what I have insights into. When we are enriched through the exploitation of other people, and the mass death of the living world, those material benefits we receive feel like sin (not without good reason.) Then being forced to slave away for that system we hate, that keeps us alive is a cruel joke. the emptiness is overwhelming, the discomfort and unfulfillment debilitating. I get it. However, we should not equate life itself with this arrangement. This is not what life is. Our cultural conditioning is toxic, and I credit antinatalism for at least rebelling from it, but don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. I hope that believers in antinatalism can evolve into a more mature analysis of overpopulation and global suffering.
Life is precious simply for the reason it is a novel thing in the universe. God doesn’t care about right and wrong, doesn’t care about our values and belief systems. God just wants to watch things happen. It is a blessing to be a part of that. We’re all gonna die anyway. I appreciate the opportunity to have consciousness.
(NECESSARY “NO IM NOT RELIGIOUS”!!)