[D66] Consequences of procreation

[R.O.]

        Consequences of procreation

Benatar cites statistics showing where the creation of people leads. It 
is estimated that:

  * more than fifteen million people are thought to have died from
    natural disasters <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_disaster>
    in the last 1,000 years,
  * approximately 20,000 people die every day from hunger
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation>,
  * an estimated 840 million people suffer from hunger and malnutrition
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malnutrition>,
  * between 541 and 1912, it is estimated that over 102 million people
    succumbed to plague <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_(disease)>,
  * the 1918 influenza epidemic
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu> killed 50 million people,
  * nearly 11 million people die every year from infectious diseases
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infectious_disease>,
  * malignant neoplasms take more than a further 7 million lives each year,
  * approximately 3.5 million people die every year in accidents,
  * approximately 56.5 million people died in 2001, that is more than
    107 people per minute,
  * before the twentieth century over 133 million people were killed in
    mass killings <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_murder>,
  * in the first 88 years of the twentieth century 170 million (and
    possibly as many as 360 million) people were shot, beaten, tortured,
    knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death; buried
    alive, drowned, hanged, bombed, or killed in any other of the myriad
    ways governments have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless citizens
    and foreigners,
  * there were 1.6 million conflict-related deaths in the sixteenth
    century, 6.1 million in the seventeenth century, 7 million in the
    eighteenth, 19.4 million in the nineteenth, and 109.7 million in the
    twentieth,
  * war <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War>-related injuries led to
    310,000 deaths in 2000,
  * about 40 million children are maltreated
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_abuse> each year,
  * more than 100 million currently living women and girls have been
    subjected to genital cutting
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation>,
  * 815,000 people are thought to have committed suicide in 2000^[48]
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalism#cite_note-48>
    (currently, it is estimated that someone commits suicide every 40
    seconds, more than 800,000 people per year).^[49]
    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatalism#cite_note-49>


        D. Benatar, /Why it is Better Never to Come Into Existence/,
        /American Philosophical Quarterly/, 1997, volume 34, number 3


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