I’m not sure what Caledonian is getting at but sometimes I see arguments from immortalists about the number of lives lost (needlessly) every day (I think I’ve seen such from Eliezer) and they have the exact opposite of the intended effect on me. Momentarily I find myself a committed “pro-mortalist.” Perhaps the hardest thing to accept is that human life has no such inherent value.
I’m not sure what Caledonian is getting at but sometimes I see arguments from immortalists about the number of lives lost (needlessly) every day (I think I’ve seen such from Eliezer) and they have the exact opposite of the intended effect on me. Momentarily I find myself a committed “pro-mortalist.” Perhaps the hardest thing to accept is that human life has no such inherent value.