“If we are born without our consent, we should be maintained for our life.”
I’ve watched in disbelief as this story has circulated on respectable news sites for the past 48 hours.
This isn’t Remy in a two-dollar fake beard putting on an accent to lampoon pro-choice and environmentalist extremism?
It’s a goof on the concept of welfare too. Why should you need to be unwilling to work to receive “economic justice” from your parents, asks “Raphael Samuel”? Birth without your consent should suffice to make a claim.
[A]s we didn’t ask to be born, we should be paid for the rest of our lives to live, he argues…
Mr Samuel’s belief is rooted in what’s called anti-natalism – a philosophy that argues that life is so full of misery that people should stop procreating immediately.
This, he says, would gradually phase out humanity from the Earth and that would also be so much better for the planet…
A year ago, he created a Facebook page, Nihilanand, which features posters that show his images with a huge fake beard, an eye-mask and anti-natalist 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.
