Then there is the drive to insure the survival and happiness of your children
I assume you mean people’s drive to have children, since nobody talked about extinction through killing off anyone. But given what you said—that maximising living people’s happiness doesn’t matter if this is followed by extinction -, one would expect a more principled objection to the latter event.
There’s a good chance you will be surprised to see that you will develop one.
No there isn’t, but this is not to the point here. I’m not committing the typical mind fallacy in denying that many people have one.
I’m sure those will also spread through the galaxy if we do.
I don’t care about spreading anything through the galaxy, actually. I wonder how much the average person does. (I immensely admire certain works of art, for example, and yet, the thought that nobody should be there to enjoy them, or create any more like them, does not bug me in the slightest.)
I assume you mean people’s drive to have children, since nobody talked about extinction through killing off anyone. But given what you said—that maximising living people’s happiness doesn’t matter if this is followed by extinction -, one would expect a more principled objection to the latter event.
No there isn’t, but this is not to the point here. I’m not committing the typical mind fallacy in denying that many people have one.
I don’t care about spreading anything through the galaxy, actually. I wonder how much the average person does. (I immensely admire certain works of art, for example, and yet, the thought that nobody should be there to enjoy them, or create any more like them, does not bug me in the slightest.)