{"id":4964,"date":"2017-12-10T12:06:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T12:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/12\/10\/anti-natalism-and-demographics\/"},"modified":"2017-12-10T12:06:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T12:06:32","slug":"anti-natalism-and-demographics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/12\/10\/anti-natalism-and-demographics\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Natalism and Demographics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">I can imagine someone objecting to me as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Why the careful and respectful attention to the anti-natalist writings of David Benatar and others when the West, Europe especially, is under dire existential threat from hordes of non-Western immigrants who have no intention of assimilating but aim at cultural conquest?&#0160; Anti-natalism is an expression of exhaustion and decadence.&#0160; By taking it seriously, you lend it credibility and aid and abet the decline of the West!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">To answer directly: the aim of the philosopher is truth, whatever it is, whether it serves his form of life or not, whether it serves any form of life or not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><em>Related<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/11\/the-owl-of-minerva-spreads-its-wings-at-dusk.html\">The Owl of Minerva Spreads its Wings at Dusk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2017\/05\/nietzsche-salvation-and-the-value-of-life-better-never-to-have-been-born.html\">Nietzsche, Salvation, and the Question of the Value of Life<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can imagine someone objecting to me as follows: Why the careful and respectful attention to the anti-natalist writings of David Benatar and others when the West, Europe especially, is under dire existential threat from hordes of non-Western immigrants who have no intention of assimilating but aim at cultural conquest?&#0160; Anti-natalism is an expression of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/12\/10\/anti-natalism-and-demographics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Anti-Natalism and Demographics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[281,409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-natalism","category-demographics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}