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Will this open the floodgates?

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Bittermints · 07/02/2019 15:24

Answer, no, of course it won't, it's just another attention seeker. But I never cease to marvel at the lengths some people will go to get attention, even when it leaves them open to ridicule from everyone else on the planet.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-47154287

A 27-year-old Indian man plans to sue his parents for giving birth to him without his consent.

Mumbai businessman Raphael Samuel told the BBC that it's wrong to bring children into the world because they then have to put up with lifelong suffering.

Mr Samuel, of course, understands that our consent can't be sought before we are born, but insists that "it was not our decision to be born".

So as we didn't ask to be born, we should be paid for the rest of our lives to live, he argues.

A demand like this could cause a rift within any family, but Mr Samuel says he gets along very well with his parents (both of whom are lawyers) and they appear to be dealing with it with a lot of humour.

In a statement, his mother Kavita Karnad Samuel explained her response to "the recent upheaval my son has created".

"I must admire my son's temerity to want to take his parents to court knowing both of us are lawyers. And 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," she said.

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Bezalelle · 07/02/2019 16:28

Madness!

PyongyangKipperbang · 07/02/2019 16:36

What an arsehole.

I suspect that he has spent a good many years being bankrolled by his parents, and they have now stopped bailing him out. Hence the "We should be paid for the rest of our lives".

Of course his parents think its funny, they know he is a hiding to nothing!

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