EricK
Senior Member
Would I rather people have fewer babies, or would I rather watch more living people die sooner than they would have otherwise?
That's not a very difficult question, is it? Obviously, having fewer babies involves less human suffering. The problem of course, is actually getting people to have fewer babies. The only thing that seems to work is encouraging couples to start families at an older average age.
It's not a difficult question if your only concern is minimising human suffering. Extinction would then be the optimal solution, of course. But is it clear that this is what we should be doing? Maybe maximising human joy is a more worthy goal. Or maximising (human joy - human suffering).