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The YouTube link you shared () goes to a short video titled:
"For Benedictine hated the world so much that he didn't bring a child into it"
It's uploaded by the channel
BenedictineTheTruth about 2 months ago
(around late October 2025), with roughly 2K views and hashtags #antinatalism #childfree.
The content is a raw, emotional monologue (seems like a personal vlog-style or confessional video) where the speaker explains their strong antinatalist stance — the philosophical view that it's morally wrong or deeply inadvisable to bring new children into existence due to the immense suffering, cruelty, and pointlessness inherent in life.
Key points from the video include lines like:
Feeling like crying at the mere thought of having a child
Refusing to bring anyone into a world full of disease, war, violence, poverty, and evil
Viewing procreation as a selfish and evil
act, essentially cursing someone to suffer
Happiness declining with age, life becoming harder to romanticize
Preferring to only worry about one's own suffering rather than a child's
A blunt take: "This world is a mess... So I ain't creating no slaves for nobody."
The comments section strongly echoes the sentiment — lots of agreement from people who feel the same way, some expressing regret about having had kids,
others celebrating
childfreedom/vasectomies, and references to classic antinatalist ideas like "the greatest blessing is to have never been born."
It's a pretty intense, bleak-but-earnest piece in the antinatalist / voluntary extinction / pessimistic philosophy space. If you're sharing it because it resonated (or horrified you), what's your take on it? Or were you just dropping the link for reactions?