I am sure the title might be a bit (in fact hugely) off considering we are living in a world which has a population of over 7 billion and expected to reach 10 billion by 2050. But here is my reasoning.
Firstly, I want to begin with a quote by Richard Dawkins in the context of atheism.
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
So if I am a christian, I am usually atheist towards Rama, Allah, Ra etc etc. A real atheist goes one god further and doesn't believe in the god he/she is expected to believe. In other words, if the world has had n gods till now, the believers are atheists towards n-1 gods while the atheists are atheists towards n gods.
I want to use the above line of thought in the context of antinatalists. Before the invention of contraceptives, people usually had as many children as they could in their lifetimes. In the current world, the scenario has changed drastically. People make conscious decisions as to how many children they want to have, thanks to contraceptives. Therefore, if a procreater can have n children in his/her lifetime, he/she is an antinatalist towards n-1, n-2, n-3 etc children (considering how many children he/she has had). But a real antinatalist just goes few steps further and is antinatalist towards n children.
In conclusion,
"We are all antinatalists towards a lot of children we could have had. Some of us just go a few steps further."
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