Antinatalism


Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
The Trouble With Being Born
The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
Confessions of an Antinatalist
Debating Procreation: Is It Wrong to Reproduce? (Debating Ethics)
Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
The Last Messiah
Anti-Natalism: Rejectionist Philosophy from Buddhism to Benatar
A Critique of Affirmative Morality: A Reflection on Death, Birth and the Value of Life
Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
On the Heights of Despair
On the Suffering of the World
The Denial of Death
Begetting: What Does It Mean to Create a Child?
Wedding Bell Blues by Michael BarsonBetter Never to Have Been by David BenatarWill You Be Mother? by Jane BartlettMinimizing Marriage by Elizabeth BrakeMen Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them by Susan Forward
Misogamy
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It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place.
David Benatar , Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence

Arthur Schopenhauer
Every time a man is begotten and born the clock of human life is wound up anew, to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

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