The notion that having children may be a bad idea seems to be gaining mainstream popularity. “We all owe you a round of applause,” she said. In May, Dana Wells, a 37-year-old Dallas-based woman who goes by “The Friendly Antinatalist” on YouTube, posted a video featuring the Colbert clip and congratulating Samuel. Still, his lawsuit gave the anti-natalist movement a boost, even earning a bemused mention by Stephen Colbert. “I have been clearly told by a sitting judge that I will be fined by the court for wasting its time,” Samuel said. Since his announcement, the lawsuit has not gotten off the ground.
According to this logic, the question of whether to have a child is not just a personal choice but an ethical one – and the correct answer is always no.
The basic tenet of anti-natalism is simple but, for most of us, profoundly counterintuitive: that life, even under the best of circumstances, is not a gift or a miracle, but rather a harm and an imposition. Samuel subscribes to a philosophy called anti-natalism.
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