>New lives are not inherently more valuable than old lives. From an evolutionary standpoint, they absolutely are. The whole idea of life is to produce a variet

>New lives are not inherently more valuable than old lives. From an evolutionary standpoint, they absolutely are. The whole idea of life is to produce a variety of mutations in the hopes that at least some of them will be able to overcome hostilities that their predecessors couldn't win against. >A lot of the suffering inherent to human life is caused by moral compromises made for the sake of future generations' well-being Well, future generations' well-being is exactly the goal of life and evolution. Any species that fail at ensuring future generations' well-being get wiped out. Whether they like it or not. Life is hard.