Should the human species continue?
Baseline Earth examines the antinatalist argument — the philosophical position that bringing new people into existence is a moral harm — with every case and every objection presented at full strength.
The four arguments
The Asymmetry (David Benatar): The absence of suffering is good even with no one to enjoy it, while the absence of pleasure is not bad unless someone is deprived. So never existing may always be better.
The Consent Problem (Seana Shiffrin): No one can consent to being born, yet we impose the entire risk of a life — including guaranteed suffering and death — on them.
The Quality of Life (Schopenhauer): Lives contain far more suffering than we admit. The worst pains outweigh the best pleasures. We systematically overrate our own existence.
The Imposition (Julio Cabrera): Every new person is enrolled in a world of 440,000 murders per year, 700,000 suicides, 735 million hungry, 160 million children in labor — without consent.
The evidence
The site documents what a human life actually contains: the statistics of violence, suffering, inequality, and loss from WHO, UNICEF, SIPRI, FAO, and other institutions.
This site leans toward the antinatalist view but presents every counterargument at full strength. These are questions about whether to begin new lives — not a judgment on any life being lived.