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Man plans to sue parents for giving birth to him without his consent
- pseingatl 8y agoToo many lawyers with too little to do. Clerks of court who accept vexatious filings and sham pleadings.
- degobah 8y agoNo one has accepted anything. "Man plans to sue his parents". Plans.
- celticninja 8y agoAnti-natalism makes no sense. How is it better for the planet of there are no humans to appreciate it? At best the planet is ambivalent about humans.
- towaway1138 8y agoPer David Benatar, there's an excellent case to be made that being born is one of the ultimate wrongs. Like so many of them, though, there is really nothing a court of law can do about the situation.
- jobigoud 8y agoHasn't there been cases were a person born with an inherited disability while the parents were well aware of the risks has successfully sued the parents?
- conductr 8y ago> Man plans to sue parents for giving birth to him without his consent I rarely actually LOL but this headline got me
- jeffwass 8y agoSame here. And it was on BBC of all places, so had to post it here. For some reason the submission was flagged, not sure why.
- IIAOPSW 8y agoLitigants like this should be sentenced to death.
- nickthegreek 8y agoPretty sure he is free to take that action himself. If it is against his religion, well there is a good chance that religion also states that it was his parents duty to bring him into this world. In which case, he can be mad at his Creator.
- dragonwriter 8y agoOr just have their case dismissed because they have obviously ratified their circumstance by their voluntary action to continue sustaining their supposedly-unwanted life.
- Odenwaelder 8y agoHe does have a point. We exist, one or the other way, for the pleasure of our parents. I find this sad.
- beart 8y agoOur parents exist, one or the other way, for the pleasure of us.
- happytoexplain 8y agoThe words are the same, but cause and effect have been reversed.
- jammygit 8y ago"Mr Samuel, of course, understands that our consent can't be sought before we are born, but insists that "it was not our decision to be born". So as we didn't ask to be born, we should be paid for the rest of our lives to live, he argues." This is an interesting economic/social perspective actually. The later parts of the article about eradicating humanity aren't that original though.
- hprotagonist 8y agoEcclesiastes 4:1-3: Next I turned my attention to all the outrageous violence that takes place on this planet—the tears of the victims, no one to comfort them; the iron grip of oppressors, no one to rescue the victims from them. So I congratulated the dead who are already dead instead of the living who are still alive. But luckier than the dead or the living is the person who has never even been, who has never seen the bad business that takes place on this earth. We’ve been on this idea for a while.
- reaperducer 8y agoPeople are just broken.
- reaperducer 8y agoThis, he says, would gradually phase out humanity from the Earth and that would also be so much better for the planet. Perhaps he should lead by example, instead of setting up a Facebook page. Smells like he's more interested in attention than improving the planet.
- seba_dos1 8y agoTo be honest, making a meaningful difference towards which cause is probably easier without leading by example there.
- reaperducer 8y agoIt's all virtue signaling. Like "raising awareness" of things everyone is already aware of.
- seba_dos1 8y agoWith time I have less and less understanding of what's "everyone already aware of", especially when going outside of usual social bubbles.
- ur-whale 8y agoHow is this not immediately solved by suicide?
- happytoexplain 8y agoSuicide is psychologically difficult, often even in spite of great suffering.
- gaara87 8y agoLet alone illegal. If the country legalized assisted suicide then I'd agree with what you are saying
- jobigoud 8y agoRelated question: If a woman decides to keep a child born out of rape does she forfeit the right to sue the rapist? Sometimes you don't consent to things but you decide to make the best out of the resulting situation. It doesn't make the non consensual thing right.