Guy Edward Bartkus, the suspect recently charged with suicide car-bombing a fertility clinic in California, was an efilist — a devotee of an extremist form of antinatalism.
Efilism, like all extreme ideologies today, is largely an internet phenomenon. Though broader interest in antinatalism — the belief that having kids is morally wrong — has been on the rise. Some believe that parents have no right to bring children into the world. One antinatalist in India sued his parents over the fact that he didn’t consent to being born. Others think that voluntary human extinction is the only solution to the suffering wrought by humanity. The founder of the Antinatalism International, Anugraha Kumar Sharma, argues that “there is absolutely no hope whatsoever in this world.” He advocates for unconditional voluntary assisted suicide and claims to be a Marxist.
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