“Is It Immoral To Have Children? Talking with David Benatar” – Alex J. O’CONNOR | COSMIC SKEPTIC

Professor David Benatar is a South African philosopher, academic and author, and head of the philosophy department at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He is best known for his defence of antinatalism, the view that it is immoral to have children (though more specifically, to bring new sentient beings into existence). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeGAeBe7iRM…

“«If You Want To Kill Yourself…» – For a Critique of Suicidal Reason” – Julio CABRERA

(n.t.) Nota do Tradutor, nr. 23, special illustrated edition («Suicidário»), 2021, pp. 12-58. Transl. by Rodrigo Menezes. An unpublished essay by Argentinian-born, Brazilian-based philosopher Julio Cabrera, internationally renowned for his studies on negative ethics, and considered one of the most important South American representatives of contemporary Antinatalism, a movement anticipated by his Projeto de ética…

“Project of Negative Ethics” – Julio CABRERA

Misantropia e Melancolia

This is an English translation of the first chapter of Julio Cabrera’s Projeto de Ética Negativa (1989). The full book in Portuguese can be accessed here.

“Killing someone and giving birth to someone are two violent actions through which, magically, man tries to put himself in God’s place. The victim of a homicide is always helpless, but never as helpless as the victim of a birth. Childbirth spills as much innocent blood as a homicide. If procreation is a free choice, then life is fundamentally unnecessary pain.” Back cover of the book.

SUMMARY

Preface ………. 7
I.  Parenthood and abstention ………. 17
II.  Suicide ………. 33
III. Small murders ………. 51
IV.  Concealment of non-being. Illusion and survival ………. 69
V.   Ethical discourse and indeterminacy ………. 85
VI.  Philosophy and the paradoxes of knowledge ………. 99

PREFACE

Many philosophers already had the profound intuition of the inexpressible character of ethics…

Ver o post original 8.054 mais palavras

Should We Stop Having Babies? Antinatalism Explored | Einzelgänger

Is it better never to have been? Some people believe it would indeed be better if no sentient life came into existence. Antinatalism is the philosophical viewpoint that procreation is morally wrong. And therefore, we should avoid it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ_8fw6-S8A Some antinatalists think only humans should stop having children; others believe that all sentient beings would…