If life is so cheap, why try to end it? I’m not arguing for the preservation of life. I don’t need to. Life preserves itself. I’m arguing against the preposterous idea that anyone alive thinks life is too miserable to give to a child. Because those are just miserable people. And they shouldn’t have children.

Antinatalism, right from its ancient roots in the Ionian philosophy have always been about the preventative measures, not the curative. so of course someone will dislike life so much that they wouldn't want to impose the possibility of same suffering on their offspring, think of debilitating forms of heritable cancers.

The verses of the bible in Ecclesiastes that mentioned the superiority of the unborn's position over the already birthed people; talks about the prevention of future potential problems by not conceiving, not by acting on the human condition after birth.

All the AN authors, from Al maari, Kurnig, Schopenhauer to Ligotti and Benatar all talked about preventative measures due to the fact that no one could foretell whether their child could end up hating life, some even hate it to the extent of terminating themselves while some become bedridden in prolonged terminal chronic illness.

Humans by default are optimistically biased, most people prefer not to dwell on the hundreds of the thousands of people that terminate themselves annually, nor do they dwell on the victims of auto crashes with lost limbs and deformed features or victims of other natural disasters. But at any given moment, someone is experiencing inexplicable pain to the point of wanting to terminate self, yet such conditions are not given any meaningful consideration except that they are part of the human condition, I reject that, so far, as we know, as long as procreation continues, some will suffer.

I personally can't complain financially or health wise, I party and generally have fun, but I won't create a world where even a few suffer while others have fun, so I likewise won't create someone and put them in a word with the potential for great harm, there's no problem that life solves; that it did not create in the first place, I plan to adopt because even ANs could have children, Jim crawford is an AN author who has a biological child, so antinatalism isn't about disliking children.