Pro- i antynatalizm. Spór o sens życia i sposoby ratowania planety
Pro and antinatalism. A dispute over the meaning of life and means of saving the planet

Summary/Abstract: Successive generations have been raised and socialized to procreate in a spirit of pronatalism. For a vast majority of society members, parenthood is “taken for granted”. Anti-natalists argue with pronatalists, claiming that people should give up procreation as it is morally wrong. In their view, life is a string of suffering that is difficult to make sense of, while self-consciousness is a curse. A man emerges from non-being and quickly returns there. The return is often accompanied by mortal terror, which is the apogee of tragedy. Anti-natalists stress that due to the hegemony of the colossal population of homo sapiens sapiens, an unprecedented annihilation of the biosphere is taking place. Radical adherents of this philosophy claim that the voluntary extinction of our species would be the best solution to human problems and a chance for the entire planet to return to its balance. This position, so contrary to the cultural mainstream, is usually ignored, stigmatized, excluded, and tabooed.

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