【非選題】 六、申論題： Give a summary of this story, and your commentary. In the summertime, Alex and Dietz decided to take a road trip. The two had met years
earlier on Instagram, as fellow animal-rights activists, and had discovered that they agreed on
much more than veganism. Actually they agreed on basically everything, including that new
human life is not a gift but a needless perpetuation of suffering. Babies grow up to be adults,
and adulthood contains loneliness, rejection, drudgery, hopelessness, regret, grief, and terror.
Even grade school contains that much. Why put someone through that, Alex and Dietz agreed,
when a child could just as well never have known existence at all? The unborn do not appear
to be moaning at us from the void, petitioning to be let into life. This idea—that having
children is unethical—has come to be known as antinatalism, and in 2021 Dietz set up an
Instagram account for a new organization he called Stop Having Kids. By then, the two were
dating, although most of the time still living apart. Every so often, they met to hold
demonstrations for Stop Having Kids, which Dietz has over time built into a real operation
with donors who fund billboards that say things like PROCREATION IS NOT A
RESPONSIBILITY and MAKE LOVE NOT BABIES.
–from Harpers, https://harpers.org/archive/2024/03/the-case-against-children-elizabeth-barber/
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