A 27-year-old man, resident of Mumbai, has said he is going to drag his parents to court — for giving birth to him without his consent.
As children are powerless to decide whether to come into this world or not, the parents should support them for life, says Raphael Samuel in a viral YouTube video.
His protest is really about procreation, which puts a strain on Earth and skews ecological balance, he says.
“I want everyone in India and the world to realise that they are brought in this world without their consent ....they do not owe their parents anything and if we are born without our consent, we should be maintained for our life. We should be paid by our parents to live,” he says in the video.
He has not elaborated on which court he plans to move.
His mother, Kavita Karnad Samuel, took a lawyerly approach.
On Raphael’s Facebook wall, Kavita wrote, “If Raphael could come up with a rational explanation as to how we could have sought his consent to be born, I will accept my fault.”