Mortality as the horizon of every life. Essays on death, dying, and what acknowledging finitude does to the way we live.
While existentialists like Camus and Sartre championed creating meaning in a meaningless world, their core premises about absurdity and freedom logically support an antinatalist conclusion.
Buddhist analyses of suffering, when followed to their logical conclusions, find a powerful and unexpected resonance with the core tenets of antinatalism.
Existentialists like Camus and Sartre affirmed life in the face of meaninglessness, but their core premises about absurdity and freedom can be read to support a more pessimistic, even antinatalist, conclusion.
David Benatar's asymmetry argument posits a fundamental imbalance between pain and pleasure, leading to the stark conclusion that coming into existence is always a serious harm.
Pronatalism, the pervasive but often invisible ideology that treats procreation as a default, shapes our world by serving powerful cultural, religious, and economic systems.
This essay examines the most compelling counterarguments to antinatalism, from Pollyannaism to appeals to future good, and argues for their ultimate insufficiency in the face of suffering.
Rising rates of mental illness and alienation in late modernity lend credence to the antinatalist assessment of existence.
To create new life under the banner of a loving God requires reconciling procreation with the problem of evil. This essay argues that theological defenses fail.
While Camus and Sartre championed creating meaning in a meaningless world, their existential premises can be read as a profound critique of procreation itself.
The Buddhist diagnosis of universal suffering (dukkha) finds a modern echo in antinatalism. An examination of their shared logic reveals the profound wisdom of non-birth.