Opportunity cost and value require a subject for whom things can be better or worse. In a lifeless universe, there are no such subjects, so nothing is lost.
Would you say that a universe with a single person who lives 1 year in happiness is equally as valuable as one in which a single person lives 1000 years in happiness?
Opportunity cost and value require a subject for whom things can be better or worse. In a lifeless universe, there are no such subjects, so nothing is lost.
Would you say that a universe with a single person who lives 1 year in happiness is equally as valuable as one in which a single person lives 1000 years in happiness?