People often think that being an antinatalist and a misanthropic is a bad thing and dismiss them as mere bitterness and hatred.

But what if they stem from compassion? A twisted kind, yes, but compassion nonetheless? 🤣

Let me explain to you why:

You start by holding humanity to a higher standard. You put the human race on a higher pedestal. You expect them to care, to be compassionate, and to care about things beyond physical gratifications and instinct.

Yet reality rebukes you, again and again, until you see the truth: this world is a futile, self-devouring machine. A hell that churns out misery while the masses shrug, indifferent to the ruin they perpetuate.

Then you inevitably are continuously disappointed with the reality and maybe even indirectly rebuked about why you’re here.

You fall into deep contemplation until you realize that this is such a futile, meaningless, and wrecked world. You realise it’s such a hellish place that won’t stop excreting so much misery, sorrow and despair, and you live among humans who don’t even put consideration on the damage they are causing in the future and the unspeakable deterioration they perpetuate.

The universe is just an uncaring and indifferent mass of emptiness. The universe doesn’t care and it should be okay, but these people also don’t. And life itself will always generate a selective pyramid with the few on top and the great majority at the bottom, who, being frail, have to pay the biggest bill and take on the worst parts of other forms of suffering besidesthe existential problems themselves.

You have to agree with being a slave to capitalism, being part of the plague called the human race, and dealing with those with decomposing flesh whom you cannot trust anymore.

Now you understand that life is actually not the opposite of death but the death’s waiting room, so it’s a good idea to not bring more children into this unnecessary suffering, agony, and misery.

Why drag more souls into this cesspool of agony? The only mercy is refusing to propagate it. The only true reduction of suffering? The end of sentience itself.

You think that so much endless and needless suffering could be avoided by complete extermination or disappearance of sentient life from the face of the cosmos.

When people hear anti-natalism, they sneer, “If life is so bad, why don’t you kill yourself?”.

But suicide doesn’t fix suffering. It just removes one witness. Anti-natalism isn’t about self-destruction but about preventing future pain.

Suicide is really an inefficient way of reducing the net amount of suffering in this world.

Of course, the real issue is this: not everyone sees the world as a hellscape.

Most don’t smell the slaughterhouse, they just learned to love the taste of meat. Most won’t question the feast, they’re just too busy swallowing.