From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Tue Jul 29 2003 - 23:22:55 MDT
Brett writes (along the same lines as another poster)
> But if you were for instance to hold the view that the
> death of a man must be weighted as a tragedy not just
> because he is himself dead but each sperm in his testes
> were somehow special too then we really are going
> somewhere strange and my question would be why
> bother going there? How is it useful to pursue such a
> line?
I think that that's a rather extreme caricature of the
view that there should be more people. Put as simply
as possible, would you (and that other poster whose
email eludes me right now), prefer that some given
quantity of mass---say Jupiter---continue on its
stupid course, or rather that the trillions of tons
of its substance support trillions of as yet non-existent
people?
I for one would want the latter.
Lee
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