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by eanzenberg 2899 days ago
Its easy to want lower human mortality when you’ve already benefited from greatly increased human mortality due to scientific progress.
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I think you meant the opposite of what you wrote, i.e. 'want bigger human mortality ... benefited from greatly reduced human mortality'
It's easy to ignore the destruction of the environment if all you care about is optimizing for the human race at the expense of all other species.