Nume's Blog

• Antinatalism Is Not Harm-as-Solution by Nume on July 25, 2026

  I moderate r/antinatalism, a large online community built around a difficult ethical position: that choosing to bring new sentient beings into existence is e...

• The Act Creates Its Addressee by Nume on July 19, 2026

  It is among the gentlest things anyone says about having a child, and it is often true. Nothing here doubts that the love is real, or that the lives it surro...

• A reply to Lemon Pecan Pie by Nume on July 13, 2026

  You read the essay twice and spent hours writing your objections. Near the end, you said that if you had misread it, that was ninety percent your fault. I wa...

• Nume on Antinatalism: A Q&A with Ellen C. Scott by Nume on June 18, 2026

  Ellen: Have you always had antinatalist views? If not, when did it start for you? What changed?

• Risk Is Not Authority: A Standing-Based Reply to Häyry by Nume on June 4, 2026

  A reply to Matti Häyry. I share his Epicurean floor — that non-existence is bad for no one — and his antinatalist verdict. What I do not share is what he bui...

• Policy update on efilist participation in r/antinatalism by Nume on May 30, 2026

  Since June 2025, r/antinatalism has permanently banned users for identifying as efilists or participating in efilist communities, regardless of what they had...

• When Support Becomes Supply by Nume on May 27, 2026

  Most of what gets called help is help. The friend who arrives when someone is ill. The hands that do the cooking and the listening and the waiting. The paren...

• No One Is Infrastructure by Nume on May 25, 2026

  A question that recurs around antinatalism is whether the refusal stops at birth. Does it touch veganism, capitalism, anarchism, feminism, nonviolence? Some...

• The Consent Argument for Antinatalism by Nume on May 15, 2026

  Antinatalism is a family of ethical views that question whether bringing sentient beings into existence can be justified. This essay focuses on one argument...

• The Car I Was Supposed to Need by Nume on May 6, 2026

  After I sold my Civic, I called to cancel my insurance on the way to the bus stop.

• After Aponism and the White Flag by Nume on May 4, 2026

  I first learned that The Aponist Manifesto had been pulled into the orbit of a terrorist attack during the intermission of Pride and Prejudice at a theatre i...

• A Clarification on the Direction of r/antinatalism by Nume on April 22, 2026

  Over the past two weeks, this subreddit has seen a sharp increase in conflict around veganism, speciesism, moderation, and the meaning of antinatalism in pra...