This information is being reported at a couple of international sites, but (if accurate) it has apparently been blacked out in the U.S.
The bomber at a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, has been identified as a 25-year-old man who left an online manifesto in which he described himself as a pro-mortalist, saying people didn’t give consent to exist.
The suspect is Guy Edward Bartkus, a 25-year-old man from Twentynine Palms, a small city about 35 miles northeast of Palm Springs. He left a 30-minute audio recording in which he explained his motive for the attack.
“I figured I would just make a recording explaining why I’ve decided to bomb an IVF building, or clinic,” he said at the beginning of the recording. “Basically, it just comes down to I’m angry that I exist and that, you know, nobody got my consent to bring me here.”
Describing himself as anti-life, he adds: “I’m very against [IVF], it’s extremely wrong. These are people who are having kids after they’ve sat there and thought about it. How much more stupid can it get?”
If this is accurate it’s way weirder than anything I had on my radar.
Why? We aren’t taking care of our people. I’m sure many of them feel the same way or close. Lots of people don’t want to live in misery, especially when they realize most of it is an actively created construct by others. If you combine that with the very common belief in an afterlife, it becomes a very obvious and likely path.
Could you explain how a belief in an afterlife is a factor in this? Wouldn’t be the other way because you would be held accountable for your actions?
To add to the other comment, the two concepts of an afterlife and punishment or reward are separate concepts and don’t have to coincide. Some faiths explicitly believe in heaven and not hell, and some neither.
Always remember when thinking about possibilities, given totally made up shit, the answer is always all possibilities exist and must be considered.
Not who you replied to but: If you believe a soul is created at conception, and that fetuses that are never born alive and baptized automatically go to heaven, yourself being sent to hell would logically be a sacrifice for the greater good to spare suffering and guarantee a place in heaven for the embryos.