This is not a personal blog so basically, I don’t write here about myself. But it might be relevant, at least for some of you, to know that personally I was never the kind who always knew they will never have children. I never disliked children, and in fact when I was really young I wanted to have children, and I was sure it’ll happen when I grow up.
With time, along with my general ethical progress, I realized how immoral and harmful procreation is and ever since then obviously the thought of creating new people has never again crossed my mind. But I am not “naturally” childfree in the sense of personally never wanting children.
I am also not pessimistic by nature (there is nothing wrong with that of course, it is just not my case) and I have never experienced depression, anxieties, and was never characterized as having a risk averse personality. I know I am not at all unique and that there are many antinatalists with a similar background, but still I thought it is important to mention it given the ideas I am promoting in this blog.

Anyway, obviously things have changed over time. Nowadays I am pessimistic, but that is due to the knowledge I have gained and my experience in trying to change people’s minds about things that matter ethically, not because of my personality. Actually had I been pessimistic by nature I would probably find it hard to believe that there is a chance to ever break the cycle of misery and exploitation. But I do believe in that and hence this blog. I believe it is close to impossible due to technological difficulties and that it is an extremely complicated task, but I still believe it is possible, and that there are enough people who share the same desire, and who care enough about suffering in the world to try and accomplish it.

Speaking of which, although the activistic bottom line call is for something very particular, almost each and every text can be read regardless of it. You can separate between the antinatalist arguments and other aspects of procreation that I am addressing in this blog, and the blog’s goal. So my hope is that every antinatalist, even the ones who oppose its activistic conclusion, would find value and interest in the content of this blog regardless of its ultimate aim.

Furthermore, this blog has another leitmotif which I find extremely important and one that I am hoping every antinatalist would find value and interest in, regardless of the blog’s ultimate aim, and that is ‘the harm to others’ argument for antinatalism (often mistakenly referred to as the misanthropic argument). I find the extreme harm to others, by each and every person, as the most important reason to never create new people. Therefore this argument is intertwined and emphasized in many of the texts.
Having said that, there are also many texts that address antinatalism regardless of the harm to others, or the activistic call of the blog, so again, I hope that most antinatalists would find here something that interests them