“[T]he world is a very dark place. While many moments of people’s lives are filled with laughter and accomplishment, some moments are filled with depression, anxiety, or extreme and unrelenting agony. And the lives of most non-human animals are far worse. It’s easy to become upset and hopeless: Why don’t other people care about extreme suffering? How can they not see how important it is compared with other, more trivial things in life?”

— Brian Tomasik, Strategic Considerations for Moral Antinatalists (Essays on Reducing Suffering)