Your Birth Was Your Parents’ Most Selfish Act (Antinatalism)

Your birth was the most selfish thing your parents ever did. Nobody has ever had a child for the child's sake. Before you were born, there was no you to do it for. Your parents had you to fix themselves, and you were handed the job before you had a name. 📸 Follow Lumen Theory™ on Instagram:   / lumentheorytv   🧠 IN THIS VIDEO The five jobs parents give their children before they exist David Benatar's antinatalism and why never being born costs you nothing Why so many parents secretly regret having children Ernest Becker, Carl Jung and Schopenhauer on why people really have kids How to quit the job without hating your parents 📚 SOURCES David Benatar, Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence (2006) Seana Shiffrin, "Wrongful Life, Procreative Responsibility, and the Significance of Harm" (1999) Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume 2 (1844) Carl Jung, introduction to Frances Wickes, The Inner World of Childhood (1927) Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death (1973) Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah (1933) Emil Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born (1973) Orna Donath, "Regretting Motherhood: A Sociopolitical Analysis," Signs (2015) Konrad Piotrowski, PLOS ONE (2021), parents who regret having children Wisman and Goldenberg, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2005) Health Care and Retirement Corporation of America v. Pittas, Pennsylvania (2012) China's Elderly Rights Law (2013) Susan Brown and I Fen Lin, gray divorce research, National Center for Family and Marriage Research AARP and National Alliance for Caregiving, Caregiving in the US (2025) Herodotus, The Histories, Book 5 (the Trausi) United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 💬 Which job were you given? Type the number in the comments. If this video hits somewhere heavy, talk to someone you trust. 🔔 Subscribe to Lumen Theory™ for philosophy that refuses to look away. #Antinatalism #Philosophy #DavidBenatar #Schopenhauer #Existentialism #Pessimism #Nihilism #ErnestBecker #Cioran #ToxicParents #RegrettingMotherhood