Is Having Babies a Crime? | Emil Cioran’s Antinatalism

This video continues the journey into Cioran’s pessimistic worldview as we delve into his life and explore his later work, The Trouble with Being Born, a collection of aphorisms illustrating why being born is a disaster, what causes our suffering, and what we could do to cope.

Video: Is Having Babies a Crime? | Emil Cioran’s Dark Philosophy

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00:00 Introduction
01:54 Emil Cioran: from nationalist to nihilist
05:22 The dread of consciousness
07:52 The problem with being born
13:07 The art of enduring oneself

#cioran #emilcioran #antinatalism

[juanpack]

Many believed that having children brings purpose in life, but in my opinion it also bring anxiety in this uncertain world we live.

[Lunay]

I'm 30, will be 31 in 4 months, and I refuse to have children. I live every single day in chronic pain. There's never a day that I'm not in pain. I have chronic anxiety, adhd and am autistic. Its a very difficult existence, but I try my best each and every day for the ones that I love.

[chrisgilling]

In the UK, when someone dies you’ll often hear people say “it’s a blessing”. So, if it’s a blessing to no longer be conscious and suffering, surely it is also to be considered a blessing to have never been born into consciousnous and therefore to have never suffered. The very first thing a newborn baby does when leaving the womb is cry uncontrollably. Already, the suffering has begun…

[kendrickjahn]

"I have very little fear of death. In fact, I almost welcome it." ~ Charles Bukowski

[dethkon]

“To have committed every crime, except that of being a Father.” -E.M. Cioran

[Darksky]

I 100% don't want to do this life thing again. Why bring an innocent soul to suffer here...

[jacobhowerton]

Before I was born, I never had a bad day. - Doug Stanhope. My grand mother a devout Christian said we have it all backwards. We mourn when someone dies and rejoice when a baby is born.

[lovethyneibor]

"there is already enough of toxic positivity in this fake world,
we need honest truth even if it is grim like the dark sky during a winter"

- David Benatar

[ziggy]

Wishing never to have been born DOES NOT EQUAL Wanting to delete one’s self.

[mouradelam]

“This is my father`s crime against me, which I myself committed against none” Al-Maʿarrī (d. 1058 AD)
(it sounds so poetic in arabic)

[banu]

I can totally empathize with Cioran. I never had children and it was a very deliberate choice. I simply rejected to bring children to a developing country with many problems. The overpopulation and climate crisis were other notable factors. No matter where you are born, life is pointless and mostly bitter. If you don't have a belief system to lull yourself to sleepwalk through life, it can be unbearable.

[ndechindech]

A Prison Planet - Your Soul trapped in a body, your body trapped on earth - double trap - worst is being in an earth prison - triple trap.

[iorarua]

At last, a philosophy that matches my own! If I had been given a choice, I'd prefer not to have been born. That's not to say I've had a miserable life. It's been OK, very good at times. But everything I've seen and experienced of life leaves me totally unimpressed.

[jeanf]

Sometimes a butterfly makes me laugh and sometimes it makes me cry. Life’s bittersweet.

[f.g.]

Dead at birth as we slowly decay. We're born only to fade away.

[puthiyaaccount]

Someone : Why don't you have any kids
Me : Because I love them

[arunshankars]

"Life is nothing but a disturbance to the peaceful calmness of non-existence."

[karlab.]

My father used to say that having children is the most egotistical thing you could do. I agree.
41 and choosing not to have children of my own (don't mind adopting).

[ericfigueroa]

I wish anybody that reads this a life of joy and love
A feeling of contentment with yourself
I don’t know you, and likely never will, but I’m glad you’re here as are many others

[adamayyad]

The funniest saddest thing I hear that people say oh you don’t have children you gonna die alone I response saying since when we die in groups while we holding hands together.