It’s not clear that their lives are going to be positive (or that they’ll have experiences at all), so you can argue on that front. It seems more clear in the human case because of trends + technology and growth.
You probably shouldn’t besuper certain of moral theories that lead you to this like Utilitarianism, and you probably want to act robustly against multiple moral theories. Doing something that is bad on most theories and good on one or two (even if they individually are your most confident theories) seems somewhat naive.
Perhaps an ethical theory saying humans should go extinct is just a good reason to reject a theory.
My personal view is that if you are a totalist you probably have to accept something like this argument in the limit, though.
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It’s not clear that their lives are going to be positive (or that they’ll have experiences at all), so you can argue on that front. It seems more clear in the human case because of trends + technology and growth.
You probably shouldn’t be super certain of moral theories that lead you to this like Utilitarianism, and you probably want to act robustly against multiple moral theories. Doing something that is bad on most theories and good on one or two (even if they individually are your most confident theories) seems somewhat naive.
Perhaps an ethical theory saying humans should go extinct is just a good reason to reject a theory.
My personal view is that if you are a totalist you probably have to accept something like this argument in the limit, though.