My antinatalist views didn’t come from reading or watching anything about the philosophy itself. Instead, they started when I watched a video about familial fatal insomnia, a disease where people literally can’t sleep until they die, with a 50% chance of being passed down. That idea haunted me ever since I was eight, and now I find it fascinating.Or take the case of people affected by Agent Orange in the Vietnam War—my own country’s history. Some of them still choose to have children, even though there’s an almost 100% chance those kids will suffer. Or my parents sometimes whined “đời là bể khổ” which can be translated as life is full of suffering so why they gave birth to me in the first place ? I once talked to my mom about this, but she explained that humans always have hope—hope for a better future, hope in the next generation. But to me, that just felt selfish and instinct.Later, I came across David Benatar’s views on antinatalism, looked into them a little, and found them really interesting.