(September 28, 2018 at 10:28 am)Khemikal Wrote: Destroying all life on earth is to inflict the greatest possible suffering on the maximum amount of beings. Harris, and he makes this argument alot, lol...considers this the very definition of bad. If this is not bad, then nothing is bad.
Well you could make the argument that actually it does minimise suffering in the long term because in the same way that life procreates to create more entropy in the future, destroying life stops it procreating to create more suffering in the future. Better to take one hit now than billions of years more.
Of course I don't personally believe this, not least because I believe life will always develop somehow if it is possible.