An easy rebuttal is that they have to justify why suffering is so important that everything else has to be sacrificed to reduce it. Considering all the people talking about this haven’t killed themselves, clearly they don’t think ending individual suffering is enough to justify ending life.
Not to mention that even if life on Earth were eliminated, that doesn’t mean the amount of suffering in the universe would drop to zero. For all we know, life would emerge and suffer again or aliens would continue suffering.
Relevant_Occasion_33 t1_jbnk8y5 wrote
Reply to comment by SvetlanaButosky in /r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | March 06, 2023 by BernardJOrtcutt
An easy rebuttal is that they have to justify why suffering is so important that everything else has to be sacrificed to reduce it. Considering all the people talking about this haven’t killed themselves, clearly they don’t think ending individual suffering is enough to justify ending life.
Not to mention that even if life on Earth were eliminated, that doesn’t mean the amount of suffering in the universe would drop to zero. For all we know, life would emerge and suffer again or aliens would continue suffering.