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Without the support of human civilization they are probably a bit boned anyhow. :)

• danbruc 5y ago
  Sure, but that doesn't really help to justify killing them. Can I walk around and kill random people? I mean sooner or later they will all die for one reason or another, I am not really changing the outcome for anyone...
  • dale_glass 5y ago
    No, but the people in this case are not random, their death somehow saves billions, which means it very different from killing random people on the street. In fact, we make far worse moral calculations than that frequently. Eg, if you've ever supported a war, you've agreed with killing completely innocent children, often in horrible ways, for the sake of whatever benefit the war might have had for the side you support. And there have been plenty wars fought for reasons other than self-defense. Take Iraq and Afghanistan for instance.