University "philosopher" claims having kids is awful...but not on ecological grounds

In 2006 a professor of philosophy published a book called Better Never to Have Been. pushing the idea that simply being born is always a serious harm.  He claimed that because life is often painful, and unavoidably ends in death--which is also often painful--people shouldn't have children.

Seriously, he wrote a book pushing this.

People should never, under any circumstance, procreate.  Even if life isn’t pure suffering, coming into existence can still be sufficiently harmful to render procreation wrong. Life is simply much worse than most people think....

...and there are powerful drives to affirm life even when life is terrible.  People might be living lives that were actually not worth starting without recognising that this is the case.

The suggestion that life is worse than most people think is often met with indignation. How dare I tell you how poor the quality of your life is?  Surely the quality of your life is as good as it seems to you.

He goes on to claim that if you believe your life has more good than bad, you're naive.

Okay, I know "crazy" afflicts a certain percentage of people in every walk of life, but geez, what a loon.  At least that's my take.