[anonzzzies]

> Your life has value

It does? Measured by what? That's what I say; I'm a consumer, but beyond that, how am I valuable? How are you?

> By extension all lives are equally valuable and necessary.

You are a vegan? Are plants lives lives?

Also, putting too much pressure on the planet with over population makes it the opposite of valuable.

[thinkingemote]

By any measurement you care to make yourself. You value your own life.

[anonzzzies]

> You value your own life.

We are an accidental blib in a cold vast cosmos; nothing and no-one would think of us or remember us if the earth explodes today (or if someone hits the nuke button). I 'value' my life in so far that I am not in pain and I was born in the right location with the right interests (math + computing) to do whatever I want to sit it out until I die.

How is any of it a reason to make more babies though or a sign we have a shortage just because we make less than we need to create a population equilibrium or growth?