Per David Benatar, there's an excellent case to be made that being born is one of the ultimate wrongs. Like so many of them, though, there is really nothing a court of law can do about the situation.
Hasn't there been cases were a person born with an inherited disability while the parents were well aware of the risks has successfully sued the parents?
Pretty sure he is free to take that action himself. If it is against his religion, well there is a good chance that religion also states that it was his parents duty to bring him into this world. In which case, he can be mad at his Creator.
Or just have their case dismissed because they have obviously ratified their circumstance by their voluntary action to continue sustaining their supposedly-unwanted life.
Next I turned my attention to all the outrageous violence that takes place on this planet—the tears of the victims, no one to comfort them; the iron grip of oppressors, no one to rescue the victims from them. So I congratulated the dead who are already dead instead of the living who are still alive. But luckier than the dead or the living is the person who has never even been, who has never seen the bad business that takes place on this earth.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 71.0 ms ] threadClerks of court who accept vexatious filings and sham pleadings.
At best the planet is ambivalent about humans.
I rarely actually LOL but this headline got me
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So as we didn't ask to be born, we should be paid for the rest of our lives to live, he argues."
This is an interesting economic/social perspective actually. The later parts of the article about eradicating humanity aren't that original though.
Next I turned my attention to all the outrageous violence that takes place on this planet—the tears of the victims, no one to comfort them; the iron grip of oppressors, no one to rescue the victims from them. So I congratulated the dead who are already dead instead of the living who are still alive. But luckier than the dead or the living is the person who has never even been, who has never seen the bad business that takes place on this earth.
We’ve been on this idea for a while.
Perhaps he should lead by example, instead of setting up a Facebook page. Smells like he's more interested in attention than improving the planet.
Sometimes you don't consent to things but you decide to make the best out of the resulting situation. It doesn't make the non consensual thing right.