Tabooing theories of human value then. It’s better to be a happy pet than to be dead.
Maybe Value Is Fragile among some dimensions, such that the universe has zero value if it lacks that one thing. But Living By Your Own Strength, for example, is not one of those dimensions. Today, many people do not live by their own strength, and their lives and experiences have value.
You aren’t supposed to use metaethics to settle ethical arguments, the point of metaethics is to get people to stop discussing metaethics.
Tabooing theories of human value then. It’s better to be a happy pet than to be dead.
Maybe Value Is Fragile among some dimensions, such that the universe has zero value if it lacks that one thing. But Living By Your Own Strength, for example, is not one of those dimensions. Today, many people do not live by their own strength, and their lives and experiences have value.