I don't take comfort in the potential extinction of humanity! Surely we recognize that living things exist independent and outside of us without needing to les

I don't take comfort in the potential extinction of humanity! Surely we recognize that living things exist independent and outside of us without needing to lessen our own existence. >Couldn't you make the analogous argument that the extinction of all life on Earth would be fine since it would have absolutely no effect on the vast majority of the universe? I suppose you could but that's not what I said.