"efilism" meaning in English

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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2020, Patricia MacCormack, The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 153:",
          "text": "Efilism has a vague correspondence with utilitarianism but emphasizes the suffering of life over utilitarianism’s greater good.",
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "[“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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