Fisto (137):
I think I see where you're coming from now with this contradiction business,
but it's not a conclusion of anything you said in post 125.
I think what you're saying is that the following two statements are contradictory:
1. Human life is valuable.
2. Less humans makes it more valuable.
First of all, these two statements are only contradictory if the following proposition is true:
IF human life is valuable THEN the more human lives there are the better.
I see no reason to accept that proposition, and I believe that if you examine it closely you will
find that it is unsupportable.
(Hmmm. I have one wife and she's pretty valuable to me. Does that mean I should have more?)
Secondly, the statement "Less humans makes it more valuable" is really an oversimplification.
Really, a society (a world, whatever) can have either less or more people than what is ideal for
human happiness. The idea of "less people is better" has only been brought up because we're
discussing the possibility of overpopulation. (At this point I don't think we have to worry about
underpopulation.) And remember, you did agree that at some point overcrowdedness has a
negative impact on the quality of life.