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Arguments Against Natalism, Sexuality, and Love
Lecture Notes from the 97th Diogenesis Lecture on 2021/11/21
Parts
of
this
lecture
have
appeared
in
prior
lectures
before,
but
these
parts
have
never
been
presented
together
and
there's
a lot
of
new
material
here,
so
bear
with
me
if
parts
of
this
sound
like
a broken
record.
To
open,
I want
to
go
over
the
definitions
of
the
terms
in
the
lecture
title
so
there's
no
confusion
as
to
what
aspects
of
these
ideas
we
are
invectively
attacking.
Natalism
refers
to
a worldview
that
promotes
the
reproduction
of
human
life,
specifically
via
child-bearing
and
parenthood.
Sexuality
refers
to
sexual
attraction
to
like-kind
organisms
for
the
purpose
or
result
of
reproduction.
Love,
for
this
lecture,
will
refer
to
the
kind
of
emotion
associated
with
sexual
attraction
and
reproductive
behaviors.
There
should
be
a clear
teleological
or
narrative
trajectory
here -
that
natalism
is
the
starting
position
of
reproduction
being
good,
as
a mere
proposition,
that
sexuality
is
the
biological
imperative
towards
reproduction,
and
love
is
the
sometimes
discursive
or
conscious
actions
taken
towards
enacting
reproduction.
These
three
things
together
form
a sort
of
reproduction
trinity;
I will
argue
against
all
three
individually
and
then
I will
argue
against
all
of
them
together -
that
if
any
one
of
these
3 things
is
wrong,
then
they
all
are.
Near
the
end
of
the
lecture
we
will
also
go
over
some
possible
solutions
to
these
problems.
The
general
view
I am
presenting
here
can
be
thought
of
sloganistically
as, "
we
must
seize
the
means
of
reproduction,"
or
at
the
very
least,
have
a fundamentally
better
understanding
of
it
so
that
it
doesn't
continue
to
run
rampant
and
destroy
the
planet.