Samuel has written on Facebook that “I love my parents and we have a great relationship, but they had me for their joy and their pleasure.” He has also told the BBC that he’s been obsessed since he was a small child with the question of why his parents were entitled to create him without his consent. Because it’s not possible to ask children for consent before they are created, his argument is that therefore it’s wrong to have them at all. He finalised his philosophy by telling the BBC that “There’s no point to humanity. So many people are suffering. If humanity is extinct, Earth and animals would be happier. They’ll certainly be better off. Also no human will then suffer. Human existence is totally pointless.”