I basically agree, except for this bit: "and the life that a being that is not yet sentient would get if it were to live" I don't know that I think it's not s

I basically agree, except for this bit: "and the life that a being that is not yet sentient would get if it were to live" I don't know that I think it's not sentient, nor that it is not yet alive. I recognise that might not accord with scientific opinion, but there it is.