I wish I’d never been born: the rise of the anti-natalists | World news | The Guardian
In 2006, the South African philosopher David Benatar published a book which is widely credited with introducing the term anti-natalism. In Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence, Benatar quotes the Greek tragedian Sophocles ( Never to have been born is best / But if we must see the light, the next best / Is quickly returning whence we came ) and the text of Ecclesiastes ( So I have praised the dead that are already dead more than the living that are yet alive; but better than both of them is he who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun ). These quotes suggest that the sentiments at the heart of anti-natalism have been around for a very long time.
There is more to anti-natalism than it might initially seem, but they’re still wrong, IMHO.