• isyasad@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    only ever seen it as a personal choice

    Some people say that it is unethical to have children or imply, rather than personal choice, that it is the morally correct choice. For example: the image in this post which describes having children as great hubris.
    If the personal choice is only based on finances, I wouldn’t really call it antinatalism. Antinatalism is based on resentment.

    I think the fascist angle comes from its proximity to ecofascism ie “we should kill people because humans are the problem”. I don’t see antinatalism as necessarily fascist, but it’s absolutely inspired by the same desperate misanthropic hopelessness that hangs over heads like poisonous clouds. Just a useless philosophy that cannot make the world any better and imagines doing so as impossible.