Antinatalism is nihilistic

>antinatalism is nihilistic

Where do people get this idea?

>antinatalism is retarded

FTFY. They're also not wrong.

Because people tend to believe that pessimism is the same as nihilism, a belief that's reinforced by edgy idiots calling themselves nihilists misinterpreting pessimistic philosophers (Nietzsche in particular got hit hard with this).

Antinatalism comes mainly from pessimists like good old Schopes, Zapffe and Ligotti

Because it is pessimistic and pessimism is a precursor to nihilism.

Nice rare Schopie

Schopenhauer was a very bitter man from what I can gather. Bitter at women. Bitter at life itself.

1. A man did not exist.
2. Now this man exists.
3. This man prefers existing to not existing now.
4. This man did not prefer not existing to existing when he did not exist.
5. Existing is thus always preferable to not existing.

>b-but muh suffering!

>total moral subjectivity

Now THAT'S nihilism

Zapffe was far less bitter about life than Schopie (he loved mountaineering per example) and his antinatalism was arguably even more firm than Schopenhauer

The pessimist’s credo, or one of them, is that nonexistence never hurt anyone and existence hurts everyone