🔬 Science Dec 2, 2025 · Jack Jiang

In Japan, the Philosophical Stance Against Having Children

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In Japan, the Philosophical Stance Against Having Children
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An anthropologist delves beyond simplistic portrayals of the anti-natalist movement to understand what motivates its adherents.

Growing up in the atheistic milieu of China’s Cultural Revolution, my dad has always believed that death is the end. During the COVID-19 pandemic, when people around him began dying, he hired a lawyer and planned for his own life’s conclusion.
When I finally saw him after three years of the pandemic, my dad had grown older, balder, and more impatient. He still thinks

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