Posted on 02/04/2019 5:57:02 PM PST by Kaslin
Raphael Samuel, 27, has compared having children to 'kidnapping and slavery' On his Facebook page he sends anti-natalist posts to hundreds of followers He intends to sue his parents despite having a 'great relationship' with them
A man is planning to sue his parents in India for giving birth to him 'without his consent'.
Raphael Samuel said he had a 'great relationship' with his parents but has compared having children to 'kidnapping and slavery'.
The 27-year-old from Mumbai is an 'anti-natalist' who believes it is wrong to put an unwilling child through the 'rigmarole' of life for the pleasure of its parents.
The anti-natalist movement is gaining traction in India as younger people resist social pressure to have children.
Speaking to The Print Samuel said: 'I love my parents, and we have a great relationship, but they had me for their joy and their pleasure.
'My life has been amazing, but I don't see why I should put another life through the rigamarole of school and finding a career, especially when they didn't ask to exist.'
Samuel runs a Facebook page called Nihilanand, which has hundreds of followers, on which he regularly posts anti-natalist material.
One image is captioned 'parents are hypocrites', with the text saying: 'A good parent puts the child above is wants and needs... but the child itself is a want of the parent'
A similar meme posted on the Facebook page reads: 'If parents truly know what is good for their children... why did they have them?'
Another asks: 'Isn't forcing a child into this world and then forcing it to have a career kidnapping and slavery?'.
In yet another picture he writes: 'The only reason your children are facing problems is because you had them'.
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I had an economics teacher in high school who was a retired Navy Commander. Many times he indicated that he wasn’t so sure about abortion as it is commonly discussed, however he was fully in favor of retroactive abortion up to the age of 18. As an aside, most of us were 17 at that point.
I think that man was very much ahead of his time.
Cunningly enough if you had to ask permission to give birth you would have to ask permission to take it. It’s dumb. Given that Indians believe in reincarnation his parents should say they asked him in a previous life! :)
It goes back further than that IIRC.
Taras Bulba with Tony Curtis and Yul Brynner.
“We are a group of people who have decided not to reproduce. We are Childfree Indians!’ “
Well...good.
“The rest of the title is: as part of ‘anti-natalist’ movement that says having children is morally wrong”
I Agree, anyone from Mumbai should not have children. Immediately.
You are right. Cosby ripped it off.
I said "The world does not owe you a living".
He said "I did not ask to be here."
It is a non-argument, but I was not willing to tell him to commit suicide.
I was 16 when I told my mother I didn’t ask to be born.
She just shrugged.
I was looking for the /satire tag in the thread title because this sounds so ridiculous, and at the same time is a brilliant argument against abortion.
We need this guy to make his case to the SCOTUS next time Roe V Wade comes up.
The world has gone mad.
...And he’s in Mumbai...
I just had an odd thought:
Yet another problem with Jihadis is that they’re never actually around in the exceedingly rare care that they could actually do something USEFUL. :P
(such as in this particular case)
Does this guy pop out of a clock every 15 minutes?
Sounds like a SNL skit.
He’s had a “great life” because of his parents creating him. Otherwise he would have just been an unfertilized egg flushed down the toilet (or in India), washed out into the street or Ganges.
Out of 1.3+ Billion people in India, that has to be a few nutcases, and he’s one of them.
Since he doesn’t like being created, he can do a male “settee” and make himself into a self-created BBQ.
You want fries with that, Mister?
I think it’s a clever illustration of the liberal Democrats paradoxical corner they have painted themselves into. I reserve my criticism of his acts at this time. He seems right in thinking with our majority in Congress. Maybe showing them for what and who they really are?
Doesn’t “sufferance” cover this? As in, he has put up with his existence since responsible adulthood occurred, so...
Is he petitioning his parents to abort him? He might find a DemonRat judge to support his case.
I can’t imagine any court taking it.
It’s probably on Facebook in India. That’s where he lives.
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