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Yeah, stopping mass extinction events might not be inherently "good". But other actions can be "inherently" good. I think any action that allows life to exist
by worldsayshi 4y ago
Yeah, stopping mass extinction events might not be inherently "good". But other actions can be "inherently" good.
I think any action that allows life to exist where it wouldn't have existed otherwise, in time or space, is the closest we can get to inherent good.
- the_af 4y agoI understand, but excluding preference for our own existence -- and that of species we find pleasing or familiar -- wouldn't preventing a mass extinction event prevent the rise of new species? Every mass extinction so far became an opportunity for new species to rise and spread, of course to the detriment of many others. So why would you consider us to be "helping", if we exclude anthropocentric arguments? Maybe we are actually doing harm by preventing the rise of some new interesting species.