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Unthinkable: Procreating to ‘save the West’ is probably a bad idea, but what’s a good reason to have children?

I asked a few weird fiction writers and editors to send me one question each for Thomas Ligotti. Here's the result! With questions by Jeffrey Ford, Michael Cisco, John Langan, S.P. Miskowski, Ramsey Campbell, Joe Pulver, and others.

Among the antinatalists

On Friday 26th January 2024 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) handed down its judgment in South Africa’s application for ‘provisional measures’ against Israel under the Genocide Convention of 1948. Having focused primarily on civilian suffering in Gaza over the past 100 days, the court found sufficient ‘plausible’ evidence that genocide might be in issue. It therefore instructed Israel to implement various ‘provisional measures’ so as to ‘prevent’ genocide from occurrin...

Anthea Jeffrey dissects the broader implications for international humanitarian law as a result of the ICJ's ruling against Israel.

There is a large faction of the Left that is a death cult. Admittedly, it is only about 95% of them who want to see human beings, or at least most of us, go extinct. Adver...

Antinatalism is the philosophical view that it is almost never right for people to procreate. This stance seems absurd to many at first sight, but

Populate and perish, say Crikey readers. Spare us conservatives bleating and see being child-free a blessing not a curse.

Contemporary anti-natalist arguments add a nuance by focusing on an asymmetry between pain and its absence. The absence of all pain is good, but this good can only be achieved through not bringing anyone into existence at all. The presence of pain is bad, and it is always part of life. So why forego the certainty of a good thing for the certainty of many bad things?

Should I have children? Here’s what the philosophers say | World News