{"id":994,"date":"2008-07-23T17:01:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T01:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=994"},"modified":"2008-07-24T12:48:46","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T20:48:46","slug":"the-dont-have-children-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/the-dont-have-children-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"The “Don’t Have Children” Movement."},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n

Actually, I believe it is known as antinatalism<\/a>. \u00a0 I had no idea there were so many people passionately opposed to procreation, on the grounds that it morally indefensible to bring a child into the world when we know with \u00a0certainty that it will lead to suffering and death.<\/p>\n

Do you feel this is a crock of shit? I do, and here’s why. I believe that if I invited every antinatalist to commit suicide, I would get no takers. Why? Because they fucking want to live, that’s why! Even though life means suffering, THEY WANT MORE OF IT. But they don’t want to subject this thing they want more of, to any future beings.<\/p>\n

I believe these avowed antinatalists<\/a> are acting in bad faith by refusing to kill themselves. Shit or get off the pot, know what I mean?<\/p>\n

Life is certainly filled with tragedy but as Woody Allen complained about a restaurant with bad food, the portions are so small!<\/p>\n

By the way, I came upon this topic via Chip Smith, a provocateur (and antinatalist) whose website<\/a> wants to make you mad, or at least ruffle your feathers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Actually, I believe it is known as antinatalism. \u00a0 I had no idea there were so many people passionately opposed to procreation, on the grounds that it morally indefensible to bring a child into the world when we know with \u00a0certainty that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[290,291],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-g2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}