Alienation from work, from others, from oneself. Essays on the structural conditions of estrangement in modern life.
Is it ethically defensible to bring a person into existence without their consent? This essay examines the consent problem as a central challenge to the ethics of procreation.
Emil Cioran's aphorisms offer a literary and deeply personal form of antinatalist witness, arguing that existence itself is the primary harm.
Rising rates of mental illness are not mere chemical imbalances, but a rational response to the alienation inherent in the modern condition.
David Benatar's asymmetry argument posits that coming into existence is always a harm. This essay explores the argument's logic, historical context, and philosophical implications.
Emil Cioran's aphorisms offer a unique, literary testimony against procreation, diverging from the systematic arguments of contemporary antinatalism.
Rising rates of mental illness and alienation in late modernity are not merely social or political failures, but symptoms of a deeper existential predicament diagnosed by antinatalist thought.
Rising rates of mental illness and alienation in late modernity are not merely social or political problems; they are existential symptoms of a condition that antinatalist philosophers argue is inherent to conscious existence itself.
David Benatar's asymmetry argument posits a fundamental imbalance between pain and pleasure, leading to the startling conclusion that coming into existence is always a net harm. This essay dissects his core claims.
Rising mental distress and alienation in late modernity are not merely societal failings but experiential evidence for the antinatalist claim that suffering is an intrinsic feature of sentient existence.
To be is to be condemned to meaninglessness. An existentialist reading of the ethics of birth, from Sartre to Cioran.