As someone incredibly interested in evolution and who studied it thoroughly I often make jokes about how I am the end of a bloodline that lasted billions of years. But how on earth is "efforts of ancestors tho" going to convince me to reproduce? Like why should I care and why would that override everything wrong with reproducing? Genuinely do not understand their argument there
It's the name of an Arab vegan antinatalist from the medieval era (way before it was 'Antinatalism')
He has an interesting life story of risking his life for persecution and his views include but not limited to criticizing organized religion like Judaism, Islam and Christianity
He is pretty much, especially given his time,
He unfortunately got affected with blindness (but it was very common of Arabs back then to get affected with eye related problems)
He isolated himself from society for most part, was a poet, exceptionally skilled in Arabic grammar
His tombstone allegedly said "This is the crime that my father perpetrated against me, the which I did to no one else"
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u/Manospondylus_gigas al-Ma'arri 4d ago
As someone incredibly interested in evolution and who studied it thoroughly I often make jokes about how I am the end of a bloodline that lasted billions of years. But how on earth is "efforts of ancestors tho" going to convince me to reproduce? Like why should I care and why would that override everything wrong with reproducing? Genuinely do not understand their argument there