苦生
Bri Lee has written in the Guardian about antinatalism – it’s a new thing. Her question is whether it is moral to have a child when the world is on fire. She quotes climate change projections, coal mine approvals, Ipsos graphs, etc.
From that weak minded musing she builds the case that not creating new life is the only compassionate choice.
And she badly wants to be compassionate, for unexplained reasons.
Buddhism made a similar observation long ago: life is suffering, and birth is how suffering repeats. The difference is that Buddha also says that life is the path to liberation.
Bri Lee hasn’t noticed that forecasts are not facts. The same people who publish climate apocalypse timelines do not trade their superannuation on twenty-year models without hedging.
Bri is sort of mad. She has taken advertising slogans about carbon footprints and turned them into an ethical imperative not to fulfil the one thing in life that you can be sure about.
She is probably mesophonic as well. Sensitive mad people; probably best they don’t breed.
The truth is she’s probably just scared to go through childbirth (like she’s scared of everything), worried about her looks (because it’s all she’s got), feels unsure whether she has the fortitude to raise kids (she doesn’t) and for some odd reason worries what other people think of her (they don’t).
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