and if it did would it win?
a 27-year-old man from New Delhi, India, wants to take his
parents to court for bringing him into this world without first asking for his
consent, Raphael Samuel is an anti-natalist, a person who believes
that people should abstain from procreation because giving birth to sentient
beings without asking for their consent is morally wrong, “I want to tell all Indian kids that they don’t owe their
parents anything,” Samuel told The Paper, “I love my parents, and we have a great
relationship, but they had me for their joy and their pleasure. My life has
been amazing, but I don’t see why I should put another life through the
rigamarole of school and finding a career, especially when they didn’t ask to
exist.”
the
27-year-old runs an anti-natalism Facebook page where he routinely posts
anti-procreation messages like “Isn’t forcing a child into this world and
forcing it to have a career, kidnapping and slavery?” or “Your parents had you
instead of a toy or a dog, you owe them nothing, you are their entertainment”.
His page, Nihilanand,
only has 431 followers, but Raphael doesn’t seem to bothered about that, after
all, we all have to start somewhere, “This is a completely voluntary, non-violent movement,” said Pratima Naik,
a 28-year-old engineering graduate and one of the leaders of the anti-natalist
movement. “We don’t want to impose our beliefs on anyone, but more people need
to consider why having a child in the world right now isn’t right.” interestingly, it
has been pointed out that India’s child-free movement consists mostly of highly
educated, upper or middle-class people, I wonder if any of them still live at the Bank
of Mum and Dad?
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