Blog is on hiatus

I'm sorry to leave so soon after my last little joke, but due to real life stuff, I really do need to go for a few months. I might return after Christmas, or vanish for good. If it's the latter, I'd like to thank Mitchell and Shadow for being nice, and not thank everyone else for going "LALALA I'M NOT LISTENING LALALALA".

Good luck out there, you hateful bastards ;)

Time to come out and say it

Dimasok is a sockpuppet I've been using to discredit antinatalists by making them look my petulant children. I simply cannot live a lie any longer.

To clear some things up

          mis·an·thro·py  (ms-nthr-p, mz-)

          n.

Hatred or mistrust of humankind.

phi·lan·thro·py  (f-lnthr-p)

n. pl. phi·lan·thro·pies

1. The effort or inclination to increase the well-being of humankind, as by charitable aid or donations.

2. Love of humankind in general.

As you can see, these two words are antonyms  which means that they mean, and are commonly used to express, opposite ideas.

So to clear things up, a coherent philanthropic antinatalist would be someone who liked humanity, or at least wanted to help humanity, and thinks the best way to do so is eliminating them through refusal of childbirth.

A misanthropic antinatalist would, assuming they understand their own philosophy, either be someone who prefers not to be born, but likes to see other people be born because of how much they hate people, OR someone who thinks people deserve to be worse off not existing, or are bad for the planet, and should be done away with via refusal of childbirth.

As you can see, it is impossible to be both, and one rules out the other. A philanthropic antinatalist might, however believe a misanthropic antinatalist is wrong, but not try to convince them otherwise because they are happy they are not having children. This also works in the opposite direction. If so, one or both sides are cynically using what they see as the other's gullibility.

Now that this is all cleared up, I hope you will all be a little more honest about things.

It's vaguely hilarious

That many antinatalists appear to be more confused about what they believe than I am.

At first I was sceptical of his fringe position...

But then he showed me his blog "Universal Extinction Now" where he blogs as "Red Death Robot" and talks about building hydrogen bombs to cleanse the planet, and my misgivings just melted away.

The revolving door nature of blog antinatalism

It has not escaped my notice that antinatalist blogs often burn out quickly. One look at the blogrolls and old comments sections of several antinatalist blogs will show you people who seem to have no further presence online.

So what ends up happening to them? Does the ennui of depression get the best of them? Do they work up the willpower to end it all? Do they leave the antinatalisphere for their own mental health? Do they de-convert, or simply get bored with it all? What do you think, dear readers who don't exist because all the anti-antinatalist people are on youtube and only people who hate my guts and care nothing about actually convincing me of the truth of antinatalism read this blog?