Also, If there’s sentient life on reachable planets or a chance of it emerging in the future, some NUs might also argue that the chance of human descendants ending/preventing suffering on such planets might be worth the risk of spreading suffering. (Cf. David Pearce’s “cosmic rescue mission”.)
Also, If there’s sentient life on reachable planets or a chance of it emerging in the future, some NUs might also argue that the chance of human descendants ending/preventing suffering on such planets might be worth the risk of spreading suffering. (Cf. David Pearce’s “cosmic rescue mission”.)
Right, this is what I was alluding to with
but I agree that in theory we can reduce suffering for aliens who are morally better than humans but less technologically capable.
That said, the NU case for it doesn’t necessarily seem very strong because natural suffering isn’t as astronomical in scale as s-risks.