What does it mean to be brought into existence? Essays on the metaphysics and ethics of coming into being, the imposition of life, and the weight that accompanies it.
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.
A critical examination of the cultural, religious, and economic machinery that frames procreation not as a choice, but as a default.
Derek Parfit's non-identity problem challenges the coherence of antinatalism and procreative ethics by questioning whether it is possible to harm someone by bringing them into a life that is still worth living.
A philosophical examination of the most common objections to antinatalism and a critical assessment of their shortcomings in the face of existential reality.
In an age of unprecedented connectivity and material wealth, why are we lonelier and more desperate than ever? This essay explores the crisis of late modernity through the lens of philosophical pessimism and the antinatalist diagnosis.
Theological defenses of procreation fail to resolve the problem of evil, suggesting that if a creator exists, its gift of life is not one of love, but of unjustifiable risk and suffering.