On a Reddit post suggesting a London meet-up, one commenter is vitriolic about his neighbour’s children playing in the park: “we’re so sick of having to deal with narcissistic and selfish people who have kids.” Another gloomy forum is titled: “Born by chance, living by obligation.” (Even this report is likely to become the subject of a series of “debunking” posts or considered as pro-natalist propaganda on Reddit.).
He regularly features on podcasts, most famously with YouTuber Alex O’Connor, and on the ABC Radio National program The Drawing Room in 2024, around the release of his new book Very Practical Ethics where he says: “My view is whoever you create is going to have significant suffering in their life and they’re going to die.
Because they believe life is suffering, I was surprised to read many requests for antinatalist dating apps and social gatherings – several of which Ryan has attended.
This is the thinking of the antinatalists, a provocative philosophical movement that has grown across the world, bound by a shared desire to end human procreation.
Unlike being childfree, a lifestyle championed by feminists in the 1970s and still popular today (underpinned by the idea that having children is no more or less selfish than not having them), the antinatalist’s endgame is voluntary human extinction.
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