Against Birth: a new Perspective on Antinatalism

Every living being, including humans, is destined to die. Throughout their existence they endure difficulties, illnesses, and tears. Starting from these premises, the paper aims to show how procreation may be considered a selfish practice carried out in obedience to the so called will-to-live, the impulse that drives every living being to reproduce and ensure the survival of the species to which it belongs. To stop such an impulse requires a great deal of awareness and rationality. In the paper I shall demonstrate how, by assessing such truth, humans should escape what I define as the ‘demon of birth’ by abstaining from procreating so that other people will not suffer for their human predicament. In defending an antinatalist position I do not suppose any moral imperative but an ontological perspective which shows the perfection of the world where there is no organic birth but the painless power of Matter and Time.