“Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Pt. V : As Far as Thought Can Reach
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
“The question is not whether humans will become extinct, but rather when they will. If the anti-natalist arguments are correct, it would be better, all things being equal, if this happened sooner rather than later for, the sooner it happens, the more suffering and misfortune will be avoided.”
" Kids? Just say no: You don’t have to dislike children to see the harms done by having them. There is a moral case against procreation https://aeon.co/essays/having-children-is-not-life-affirming-its-immoral", Aeon (2017)
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