Like many other antinatalists, I am referring to procreation as a crime, a very serious one.
This definition is often counter argued by claims such as that procreation is not a crime since as opposed to cases of supposedly real crimes, in procreation there is no intention to harm, and according to pro-natalists it is actually the exact opposite.
Since I have addressed the alleged opposite intention of procreation along many former texts, here I’ll only shortly address the aspect of the seemingly unintended harm in procreation.

Allegedly, there is a difference between crimes which are considered as crimes and the crime of procreation which is not considered as one by non-antinatalists, since the first case is of causing intended harm and the latter is being consciously aware of harm with no explicit intention of causing it. However, when people are aware that their unnecessary actions are bound with inevitable harm how is that unintentional? Not wishing to harm another person by performing an action might be less wrong than performing an action with an intention to harm another person, but knowing that harm is inevitable is enough to make that harm intentional even if the harm was not intended but an unintended inevitable consequence of an action with a different intention. In other words, if people are consciously causing unnecessary harm to someone else, or consciously unnecessarily put someone in harm’s way, the fact that causing that unnecessary harm to another person wasn’t their intention doesn’t make it less of a crime as long as they were aware of inevitably causing unnecessary harm.

One explicit example of an inevitable harm is death. Given that everyone must die, people who procreate are intentionally creating people who would necessarily die. They would also necessarily be harmed by many other things, but even if we’ll assume that that is speculative, despite that clearly it is definitely not, everyone must surly die. Although people don’t procreate with the intention of causing their children’s death, they are aware of their children’s inevitable death. And so all parents can’t avoid intentionally creating people who would inevitably die.

People might truly not want their children to be harmed, but they are willing to force them to be harmed so they themselves won’t be harmed by not creating them.
That claim can be exemplified by anticipating parents’ reply to an hypothetical proposal such as will they be willing to trade a guarantee that their children would never be harmed and will always be happy, in exchange for them never seeing them again, which probably only a few if any parent would agree to. This thought experiment is an exemplification of the fact that people don’t create people for these people’s sake but out of their own interests.

Of course, there is no need for this thought experiment to prove that all procreations are self-interested as no procreation can even theoretically be about the created person as no one has an interest in being created before being forced to exist, nor is it needed to prove that had people truly cared about their children not being harmed they would have chosen the surest, most reliable and absolutely guaranteed way to prevent any harm caused to any of them which is of course to never create them in the first place. However, the fact people don’t procreate to intentionally harm their children but would not intentionally give their children up so to protect them from any harm by choosing that option in this fictional deal, or by choosing not to create them in real life, is another indication of their nevertheless intentional harm.

People prefer that their children would suffer from everything that they would suffer from during their whole life, which at least some of it is necessarily known in advance like the just mentioned inevitable fact of death, and also the accompanied fear of death, not to mention all the suffering they would cause to others during their whole life time, and all that so they would not suffer themselves from not breeding. This is how selfish people are. So selfish that it is pointless to try and convince them not to procreate for moral reasons. So selfish that we need to find by-passes in order to prevent them from breeding and by that prevent all the suffering that would have been caused to the children they would have created had it been up to them, and all the suffering that the children that they would have created had it been up to them would have caused to others.