Efilism


Procreation Is Murder: The Case for Voluntary Human Extinction
Confessions of an Antinatalist
Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence
The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
Thomas Hardy
— Я думаю, что когда родятся дети, которых не хотят, их надо сразу же убивать, прежде чем в них войдет душа, а не давать им расти и ходить. Сью не ответила, раздумывая, как обращаться с этим чересчур мудрым ребенком.
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

Ernest Becker
At its most elemental level the human organism, like crawling life, has a mouth, digestive tract, and anus, a skin to keep it intact, and appendages with which to acquire food. Existence, for all organismic life, is a constant struggle to feed-a struggle to incorporate whatever other organisms they can fit into their mouths and press down their gullets without choking. Seen in these stark terms, life on this planet is a gory spectacle, a science-fiction nightmare in which digestive tracts fitted ...more
Ernest Becker, Escape from Evil

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