The Rise of Antinatalism
Reasonable Faith Podcast
William Lane Craig
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | My baby. Having my baby what a lovely way of saying how much you love me having my baby Dr Craig I think we could probably ignore this is just a very depressing view of life from some people who just really need some help except that |
| 0:36.8 | it really seems to be growing as a movement what we're going to be talking about. |
| 0:40.7 | The Guardian and others are reporting on the rise of anti-Natalism. |
| 0:46.6 | Now you can see from the title there what that is and that is we need to quit having children because we are polluting the planet. Earth |
| 0:56.8 | needs to return back to its pristine condition of not having people on it because |
| 1:02.1 | we've messed it up. of not as a |
| 1:05.0 | as a condition of the anti-natalist. |
| 1:06.0 | So the inheritance of this, according to the article, view life not as a gift and a miracle, |
| 1:11.0 | but a harm and an imposition. their notion that having children may be a bad idea |
| 1:15.8 | seems to be gaining mainstream popularity and then they talk about Raphael Samuel who has kind of coined the phrase anti-Natalist. |
| 1:27.0 | He believes it's wrong to bring new people into the world without their consent. |
| 1:32.0 | Well that's kind of hard right there. people into the world without their consent. |
| 1:33.4 | Well, that's kind of hard right there to do. |
| 1:36.6 | Well, which would mean that it is always wrong |
| 1:40.3 | to procreate on this view that parents have an ethical obligation not to have children. |
| 1:49.0 | So this is a much more radical view Kevin than the view that the world is such a terrible |
| 1:55.8 | place we shouldn't have kids and bring them into this world because they might |
| 2:00.1 | suffer and things of that sort of practical concern. |
| 2:05.2 | This is a weird ethical argument |
| 2:08.8 | that to bring another person into being |
| 2:12.1 | without his consent is immoral. |
| 2:16.1 | It is an unethical act to make another person exist who didn't ask to be created and so parents who have children are behaving |
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