The Paradoxes Of Being An Anti-Natalist

We are never one of a few, but among many.
This is the first paradox - that we are
too many wishing were a few, the better
to boost the life chances of other species,
and limit the ruin of the planet for profit.

As anti-natalists our contentment comes
from causes other than population reduction
through refusing to breed, and these means
often arrive through almost hermit like detachment.
Being seen as anti-social by most of society
is normal. But equally our malcontent
finds accord with other anti-society sentiment;
that is a second paradox we are enriched by.

It takes graft to work out a belief,
where you work for less for yourself
-this is the third paradox. In normal society
the natural corollary of wanting less
for others is always to greed for the self.
This belief reached it's height with rationing
where the millions made their humbug patriotic,
and bullied each other for Britain for as long
as the memory of war permitted,
in some instances right thorugh the 1980s.
This disguised competitiveness
renews itself in each generation.
Today it goes by the name of being anti-immigration.

Anti-natalists are better than that.
They want less for themselves,
so that others can want less too,
out of wholesale thrift and altruism.
Their greatest gift to society
is the drive to not have children
which is the blessing that society spurns.