Dating Culture
Anti-natalism is the belief that it is inherently wrong and immoral to birth a child due to life being inevitably subject to suffering, leading to that child’s pain through culture and existence as a whole.
Dating is a pro-natalistic concept, therefore against my own ideologies.
By definition, dating could be metaphored as cultural rape since it is a man-made concept to force people into commitment, dependency and ownership,,leading to the fact that promoting it to your children is grooming them into a slavery-like cultural system.
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Dating is a social construct. Other animals do not feel the need for meaningless labels to validate a bound with their peers. Noting that an emotional connection can be obtained through a simple sincere friendship, the point of dating without the intention of procreating becomes meaningless.
The importance of a relationship is an idea pushed by cultural values onto society.
Dating is usually viewed as the step prior to marriage. Marriage encourages eternal commitment, mutual dependency, and most importantly; hopes of building a family.
It is based on cultural perceptions and interpretations of human relations where domination, ownership, rules and restrictions painted as “respecting your relationship / partner” are present which contradicts what anti-natalism advocates for, linking it to anti-cultural ideologies as well.
That is why I, as an anti-natalist, am opposed to dating culture and will never participate in this pro-natalist rape-based concept.
