Wars will End when Procreation will End

Over the past two years, I have occasionally brought antinatalist messages to anti-war demonstrations.

At a peace rally in Tel-Aviv with a sign saying: “Wars Will End When Reproduction Will End”
With the exception of one woman who for some reason insisted that bringing a sign calling for an end to all wars to a peace rally was a bit out of place, the reactions, to my surprise, were quite positive. I thought that all I could hope for in such an event at such a time is an opportunity to convey a more radical, universal and fundamental message about wars in particular, and suffering in general, through the sign alone. But gladly, and to my surprise, quite a few long and meaningful conversations took place at the event. And many others passed by and smiled or took pictures of the sign.

But the big surprise came from a 79-year-old woman named Julia who is simply a walking charm. She stood in front of the sign for a few minutes and excitedly told me that it took her a while to understand that this was indeed the message. She told how exciting it was for her to see such a statement, while she felt for years that she was the only one who thought that way. She said that she is an outspoken child-free person for over 50 years but has never seen anything like this in public.

From a certain point she just started talking to people. Every time someone stopped in front of the sign, she participated in the conversation and was very helpful! So since she spontaneously start doing anti-natalist advocacy, I asked if I can take a picture with her to share the magic with you, but she preferred not to. I really wish there would be a next time with charming Julia.

In a demonstration against the war (which is part of a huge rally to bring back the hostages and bring down the government), with signs saying: “Wars will End when Procreation will End” and “The only Operation that will End all Military Operations, is an Operation to end all Procreations”.
I was expecting a strong backlash, especially on a demographic ground, but surprisingly, except two mentions of this claim, all the reactions were pretty very positive.

In an outreach event, asking people to be good and try to solve existing problems of existing people, instead of creating new people hoping they will be good.
We should definitely try to solve existing people’s problems if it is not possible to prevent them. But why create unnecessary problems and then try to solve them?
When the world is so dangerous, so unfair and so full of problems, it makes much more sense not to create people than to create them while attempting to solve the world’s countless problems in order to justify their creation.

We should convince people to be better. We can convince people to do the best with what they have.
With their tools, with their resources, with their time, with their energy, with their money, with their intelligence. Let’s talk to each other one by one. Let’s talk to the people who are already here and convince them to be better. Why do we need to produce new people in order to solve old problems?

In a Jewish-Arab peace rally calling to reach a ceasefire agreement that will release the kidnapped and stop the killing, was held in Tel Aviv. The smaller sign I am holding is against the right wing camp which informally but practically calls for an endless war. And on a similar note, the bigger sign says: ‘Don’t Condemn Future Generations to Struggles that Never Really End’.
And the shirt goes even deeper and needs no translation.