Can't believe I only just noticed this but there's a strong excludedness on conjoining antinatalism with a disbelief in a continuing self.

Antinatalists often argue that it's fine for us to continue living, we just shouldn't reproduce new lives, but if you don't believe in a continuing self, going to sleep without offing yourself equals consigning future agents to hell just as much as having a child. Antinatalists HAVE to either hold some really repugnant views or a really silly one (the self).

@rechelon I have read an ungodly number of books and essays on antinatalism trying to reckon with why people I otherwise respect hold this view but it’s a philosophy that just dead ends everywhere at best or has way too many ties with other really odious philosophies at worst.