If you were feeling especially radical, you would kill all frogs to save the insects. This, like the other situation, leads to more questions being asked. What is the relationship of the value of frogs to the value of insects?
I don’t think this would be very radical as an ethical thought experiment for the right reason. In practice, one would (rightfully) be concerned about the downstream effects of killing all frogs. In practice, this seems to be a large consideration, even for more lopsided cases like getting rid of some mosquitos in exchange for ending Malaria (my guess would be that how much I care about another being is a convex function of the number of neurons or something along those lines). Without this consideration, this doesn’t “seem” very radical.
I don’t think this would be very radical as an ethical thought experiment for the right reason. In practice, one would (rightfully) be concerned about the downstream effects of killing all frogs. In practice, this seems to be a large consideration, even for more lopsided cases like getting rid of some mosquitos in exchange for ending Malaria (my guess would be that how much I care about another being is a convex function of the number of neurons or something along those lines). Without this consideration, this doesn’t “seem” very radical.