Raphael Samuel, a 27-year-old Indian man, plans to sue his parents for giving birth to him without his consent.
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The businessman told the BBC that it’s wrong to bring children into the world because they then have to put up with lifelong suffering.
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Although Samuel understands that our consent can’t be sought before we are born, but insists that “it was not our decision to be born”.
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So as we didn’t ask to be born, we should be paid for the rest of our lives to live, he argues.
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In a statement, his mother, Kavita Karnad Samuel, who is a lawyer, explained her response to “the recent upheaval my son has created”.
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“I must admire my son’s temerity to want to take his parents to court knowing both of us are lawyers. .
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And if Raphael could come up with a rational explanation as to how we could have sought his consent to be born, I will accept my fault,” she said.
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Mr Samuel’s belief is rooted in what’s called anti-natalism – a philosophy that argues that life is so full of misery that people should stop procreating immediately.
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This, he says, would gradually phase out humanity from the Earth and that would also be so much better for the planet. “There’s no point to humanity. So many people are suffering. .
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If humanity is extinct, Earth and animals would be happier. They’ll certainly be better off. Also no human will then suffer. Human existence is totally pointless.”
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