efilism

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IPA^(key): /ˈɛfɪlɪzəm/

efilism (uncountable)

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A rationalist negative utilitarian philosophy which endorses antinatalism and the Benevolent World-Exploder proposal.
   • 2014 July 24, Alexis Petridis, “Shabazz Palaces: Lese Majesty review – spectacular, way-out hip-hop”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 25 July 2014:

     They've identified a reference to the ancient Syracusian practice of banishment known as petalism, and what may or may not be a reference to efilism, a branch of the antinatalist philosophical position advanced by Schopenhauer, but what any of that has to do with the lyrics' subsequent allusions to Moby-Dick seems pretty open to question.

   • 2019 February 11, Barkha Kumari, “Stop making babies”, in Bangalore Mirror‎^[2], archived from the original on 13 December 2022:

     The meeting, held at a cafe, had people from other lines of philosophy too, from feminists, vegans to efilists. Of which, efilism is another extreme.

   • 2020, Patricia MacCormack, The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 153:

     Efilism has a vague correspondence with utilitarianism but emphasizes the suffering of life over utilitarianism’s greater good.

   • 2020, Rick Dolphijn, “The Non-Human, Systems, and New Materialism”, in Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Jacob Wamberg, editors, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN:

     Ahuman antinatalism is not efilism (the end-all-carbon-based-life fetishization of Buddhism) and it is not genocide, eugenics, or any other thoroughly human hierarchical form of violence.

   • 2022, Laura Carroll, “The Annual Global Childfree Event: International Childfree Day”, in Davinia Thornley, editor, Childfree Across the Disciplines: Academic and Activist Perspectives on Not Choosing Children, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 108:

     [“Year”:] 2019 [“Winner and country”:] Raphael Samuel and Pratima Naik, India [“Description”:] Key members of Childfree India, an activist group that promotes the childfree choice, antinatalism, the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, and Efilism

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