I think you can value Life without maximizing number of total deaths (or total lives lived, same thing). At some point quality matters as well as quantity. If

I think you can value Life without maximizing number of total deaths (or total lives lived, same thing). At some point quality matters as well as quantity. If maximizing the total number of lives is really all that's important, we should cease all human activity that isn't necessary to sending ants to other planets.