> I still feel a deep discomfort from the idea that people could just be okay with people suffering. But future people don't exist. If a nuclear holocaust wipe

> I still feel a deep discomfort from the idea that people could just be okay with people suffering. But future people don't exist. If a nuclear holocaust wipes us all out, they will never exist, and hence will never suffer. So really it depends on whether you consider "the continued existence of the human race" to be a moral imperative or whether you don't.