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The case of Englishwoman Toni Vernelli illustrates the disturbingly irrational nature of this death-friendly replacement of Christianity. In 2000, at age 27, Vernelli had herself sterilized so as to “reduce her carbon footprint” and “protect the planet.” “Every person who is born,” Vernelli lamented, “uses more food, more water, more landÂ…and produces more rubbish, more pollution.”
The anti-natalist movement’s guru is a philosophy professor from Cape Town University, David Benatar. In 2006 Benatar published Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence, which unabashedly advocates the extinction of humanity. It is always wrong to have children, Benatar claims, urging a “pro-death” view of abortion.
Anti-natalists are gentler exterminators than Nazis. No gassings, no ovens, just ideology induced suicide. The perfect world of the Nazis was judenrein — free of Jews. The ideal world of antinatalists like Watson is menschenrein –people-free.
Wringing our hands and letting the Pope and other theological polemicists do the heavy intellectual lifting on this issue won’t do. A return to the Judeo-Christian values that produced Western civilization is our best offence against the hollow purposelessness of militant secularism, the abhorent vacuum that loves the moral cretinism of anti-natalism.
April 11th, 2008 at 3:53 am
Recommend this for your reading:
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2008/04/antinatalism_en.html
The case of Englishwoman Toni Vernelli illustrates the disturbingly irrational nature of this death-friendly replacement of Christianity. In 2000, at age 27, Vernelli had herself sterilized so as to “reduce her carbon footprint” and “protect the planet.” “Every person who is born,” Vernelli lamented, “uses more food, more water, more landÂ…and produces more rubbish, more pollution.”
The anti-natalist movement’s guru is a philosophy professor from Cape Town University, David Benatar. In 2006 Benatar published Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence, which unabashedly advocates the extinction of humanity. It is always wrong to have children, Benatar claims, urging a “pro-death” view of abortion.
Anti-natalists are gentler exterminators than Nazis. No gassings, no ovens, just ideology induced suicide. The perfect world of the Nazis was judenrein — free of Jews. The ideal world of antinatalists like Watson is menschenrein –people-free.
Wringing our hands and letting the Pope and other theological polemicists do the heavy intellectual lifting on this issue won’t do. A return to the Judeo-Christian values that produced Western civilization is our best offence against the hollow purposelessness of militant secularism, the abhorent vacuum that loves the moral cretinism of anti-natalism.