I think there are extremely obvious disanalogies along several axes here. (1) agentic differences between humans going to space by choice and wild animals being taken or bred there without agency, (2) the difference in our general ability to understand non-human animal welfare and human welfare, (3) the general set point of best guesses as to the net positivity and net negativity of human lives. Without giving me more context on your premises or underlying moral values, it’s hard to know where to begin a response.
I suspect we aren’t reasoning from the same principles and therefore there isn’t much point in continuing the conversation, but feel free to expand on what your views would be about bringing wild animals to space (or humans) if you’d like.
I think there are extremely obvious disanalogies along several axes here. (1) agentic differences between humans going to space by choice and wild animals being taken or bred there without agency, (2) the difference in our general ability to understand non-human animal welfare and human welfare, (3) the general set point of best guesses as to the net positivity and net negativity of human lives. Without giving me more context on your premises or underlying moral values, it’s hard to know where to begin a response.
I suspect we aren’t reasoning from the same principles and therefore there isn’t much point in continuing the conversation, but feel free to expand on what your views would be about bringing wild animals to space (or humans) if you’d like.