Point taken, though that’s still a more morally ambiguous step than the equivalent in the original RC. There are already plenty of people today who think that people shouldn’t have more children due to the Earth’s resources being limited. That’s not an exact mapping to “creating new people that gave us some small amount of extra resources”, but it’s close and brings to mind the same arguments.
In my argument the button could create people and resources leading to a standard of living just below the current average, like in the original RC.
Point taken, though that’s still a more morally ambiguous step than the equivalent in the original RC. There are already plenty of people today who think that people shouldn’t have more children due to the Earth’s resources being limited. That’s not an exact mapping to “creating new people that gave us some small amount of extra resources”, but it’s close and brings to mind the same arguments.