The Age of Reason is believed by some to be still ongoing, but the following report should alert them to the fact that it appears to have drawn to a close.
Two Finnish bioethicists wrote an editorial about “antinatalism” in Bioethics, one of the world’s leading bioethics journals.
From MercatorNet,
“By adopting antinatalism through voluntary human extinction, all of humanity’s problems could be solved,” they say. Joona Räsänen and Matti Häyry believe that it is arguably “morally wrong to have children”.
If there were no children, suffering would disappear in a few generations. Severe problems such as climate change would find a resolution if humans ceased to exist, thus eliminating environmental destruction.
It appears clear that numerous problems plaguing humanity—such as wars, famine, crime, discrimination, and cruel treatment of animals, to name a few—would vanish if humans would not exist. The adoption of antinatalism would, therefore, truly solve “everything.” Humans are causing planetary destruction so great that it would be better if they ceased to exist, the two bioethicists contend. They quote a character from the popular TV show “Real Detective”: “The honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming. Stop reproducing. Walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight. Brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.”
No doubt Räsänen and Häyry are a barrel of laughs at the pub...
The two Finns have reached a logical conclusion that even this poor chess player could have figured out: Do away with humanity and the problems of humanity will disappear.
Genius!
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Two wasted minds are an accident waiting to happen.
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Of course it won't work. What will happen is that their kind of people will vanish, and it may not be pleasant when the barbarians, who still reproduce, take over their part of the world. Come to think of it, this is ongoing in Europe today.
ReplyDeleteFinland has approximately 10 deaths per thousand and 8.8 births per thousand. They are well on their way.
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