If you had the choice of being born either into an impoverished life in a sustainable agricultural civilization, or into a comfortable life with internet, global transportation and healthcare close to the end of an unsustainable technological civilization, which would you choose?
Imagine you had the choice of leaving this life and continuing it in a world where the industrial revolution did not happen and the global human population was below 400M, would you take it?
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Probably not, because I am a product of 20th century living. Ethics isn't really detached from who we are & what we want, is it. An aboriginal rainforest dweller (if they understood the question) might choose differently.
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Yes, hard to say. It seems that ancestral societies offered more fulfillment to most adult individuals, but it is difficult to imagine that parents would decide to live in a world where most of their children die.
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