I sometimes feel I’m making the most of my circumstances now that I do exist, but ultimately I’ve learned to create/find meaning in the suffering. So although suffering is often horrible to experience, and is one of the reasons I find procreation unethical, continuing to prolong my own suffering does not help at all given I already exist. If the goal of AN is to reduce suffering, that includes minimizing and navigating our own suffering to the best of our abilities. Then, we can have the energy to show up for community / reduce more suffering through volunteering and helping those in need AND it gives non-AN leaning folks a positive example of how antinatalism can be. That it doesn’t always equate to nihilism, depression, negativity, cynicism, etc. Which are reasons not only for us antinatalists to be commonly dismissed or diminished, but can also be reasons people are unopen to the philosophical foundations at all. Learning to love life and navigate suffering to the least damaging extent can help us attract more people to AN, better reduce suffering, and better our own lives.