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Actually the article is asking whether a good but curtailed life is better than no life at all. Which is a more interesting question.
by peterbraden 4y ago
Actually the article is asking whether a good but curtailed life is better than no life at all. Which is a more interesting question.
- dundarious 4y agoThe important point is that that is a hypothetical. In the US for example, that hypothetical is incredibly far from present reality.
- Sporktacular 4y agoActually they refer to suffering as one alternative a few times: "Even if, on net, the humans in the alien world suffer, is oblivion really the preferable alternative to net suffering? Especially if you could alleviate that suffering through action?"