>unless we have a particular bias for long lives specifically of the currently existing humans over in future created humans
Sure, I’m saying I have this bias.
This seems like commons sense morality to me: it would be bad (all else equal) to kill 1000 infants, even if their parents would respond by more children, such that the total population is unchanged.
Anyway, this is a pretty well-trod topic in ethics, and there isn’t much consensus, so the appropriate attitude is moral uncertainty. That is, you should act uncertain between person-affecting ethics (where killing and replacing infants is bad) and impersonal ethics (where killing and replacing infants is neutral).
>unless we have a particular bias for long lives specifically of the currently existing humans over in future created humans
Sure, I’m saying I have this bias.
This seems like commons sense morality to me: it would be bad (all else equal) to kill 1000 infants, even if their parents would respond by more children, such that the total population is unchanged.
Anyway, this is a pretty well-trod topic in ethics, and there isn’t much consensus, so the appropriate attitude is moral uncertainty. That is, you should act uncertain between person-affecting ethics (where killing and replacing infants is bad) and impersonal ethics (where killing and replacing infants is neutral).