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Indian man to sue parents for giving birth to him
BBC News, Delhi ^ | 07 February 2019 | Geeta Pandey

Posted on 02/20/2020 7:18:14 AM PST by COBOL2Java


A 27-year-old Indian man plans to sue his parents for giving birth to him without his consent.

Mumbai businessman Raphael Samuel told the BBC that it's wrong to bring children into the world because they then have to put up with lifelong suffering.

Mr Samuel, of course, understands that our consent can't be sought before we are born, but insists that "it was not our decision to be born".

So as we didn't ask to be born, we should be paid for the rest of our lives to live, he argues.

A demand like this could cause a rift within any family, but Mr Samuel says he gets along very well with his parents (both of whom are lawyers) and they appear to be dealing with it with a lot of humour.

In a statement, his mother Kavita Karnad Samuel explained her response to "the recent upheaval my son has created".

"I must admire my son's temerity to want to take his parents to court knowing both of us are lawyers. 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.

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


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To: TnTnTn

It is part of the pagan Earth worshipers outright hatred of humanity. At best, they imagine the world an appropriated Garden of Eden myth, the sacred perfect paradise filled with only the few true believers. And they want the rest of us dead.

They’re also appropriating the concept of original sin, attaching it to all humanity. The animals are the sacred innocents. Thus the hatred of newborn children and almost no hope of redemption.


21 posted on 02/20/2020 8:38:49 AM PST by tbw2
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To: the_daug

It is part of the pagan Earth worshipers outright hatred of humanity. At best, they imagine the world an appropriated Garden of Eden myth, the sacred perfect paradise filled with only the few true believers. And they want the rest of us dead.

They’re also appropriating the concept of original sin, attaching it to all humanity. The animals are the sacred innocents. Thus the hatred of newborn children and almost no hope of redemption.

His lawsuit is more an act of propaganda - to share the word that having children is an EVIL act. That the moral good requires you NOT to have children.


22 posted on 02/20/2020 8:39:32 AM PST by tbw2
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To: COBOL2Java

I’m pretty sure I have heard of a similar case about 5 to 8 years ago, also from India. This may be the same fool.
Humor is not the way to deal with it. Psychiatrists might be closer. Never shaves, probably doesn’t even bathe or use mouthwash, then gets mad about having no girlfriend from an appropriate Caste. “Kids” today!


23 posted on 02/20/2020 8:51:41 AM PST by lee martell
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To: COBOL2Java

Well, let’s let him correct the situation. As long as he’s alive, we have to assume that he’s OK with having been born.

Call it “late late term abortion.”


24 posted on 02/20/2020 8:55:56 AM PST by I want the USA back (Journalists Take Bits of Reality and Slot them into the Existing Script. -Friedman.)
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To: Robert DeLong

Why not?


25 posted on 02/20/2020 8:57:08 AM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: COBOL2Java

Well, according to the Democrats in this country, it’s not too late to abort him.


26 posted on 02/20/2020 9:08:55 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: DannyTN

If one of the other 100 million sperm cells had gotten to the egg first, he would be a different man.


27 posted on 02/20/2020 9:53:01 AM PST by depressed in 06 (60 in '20. Now, more than ever! (61, I didn't take into account Mittens.))
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To: depressed in 06

In this one particular case, the first one in’s a rotten egg.


28 posted on 02/20/2020 9:55:02 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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To: HangnJudge

What you resist persists.


29 posted on 02/20/2020 10:37:54 AM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: depressed in 06
"If one of the other 100 million sperm cells had gotten to the egg first, he would be a different man."

So it's his own fault!!!

If he didn't want to win, he should't have swam so hard.

30 posted on 02/20/2020 10:40:49 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: depressed in 06

His parents should counter sue him for interfering with their attempts to have a child that would be respectful and a help to them in their old age.


31 posted on 02/20/2020 10:42:53 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: COBOL2Java

Although no woman wants to be pregnant forever, she didn’t have any say as to when he was born either.

And the father didn’t have any say in it either.

He really should be suing whatever god he believes in.


32 posted on 02/20/2020 11:03:50 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: marktwain

I think we tried that line on our parents when we were kids.

It didn’t fly.


33 posted on 02/20/2020 11:05:18 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: DannyTN

Maybe his lawsuit sets a precedent. Now we can have a class action suit by all the babies who did not consent to be aborted.


34 posted on 02/20/2020 11:13:53 AM PST by mumblypeg
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To: TnTnTn

Reminded me of something.

His dad should say “I brought you into this world and I can take you out.”


35 posted on 02/20/2020 1:33:28 PM PST by octex
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To: Robert DeLong
"Why are you posting a year old article?"

Did you forget to assign a "/s" tag?

Or

Why are you being a petulant little d!ckhead?

36 posted on 02/21/2020 4:06:30 AM PST by SERE_DOC ( The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. TJ)
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