I don’t think I’m parsing the second paragraph right:
I’ve heard people say, in defense of modern science, “Would you prefer to be alive now, with modern medicine, or in Shakespeare’s time”? with the inference that life in Shakespeare’s day was less worth living. Surely life in any age is worth living.
I think you said it yourself earlier that, given some the sorts of valuation that we might typically use, it’s valid to say that earlier times might have been worth less to live in.
I think it’s compatible to say that you both favor living over not living (in most non-hellscapes), but also to assert that you can have an ordering over different times to live in.
I don’t think I’m parsing the second paragraph right:
I think you said it yourself earlier that, given some the sorts of valuation that we might typically use, it’s valid to say that earlier times might have been worth less to live in.
I think it’s compatible to say that you both favor living over not living (in most non-hellscapes), but also to assert that you can have an ordering over different times to live in.