Ordinary Banana

lol no it doesn’t wtf

Antinatalists think human life has negative value. Hence, it is consistent with antinatalism to attempt to end all human life. QED.

drug warriors think drugs have negative value. therefore it’s consistent with drug warring to end all life to destroy drugs

But this is because people who are anti-drug are more pro-human-life than they are anti-drug. What is the countervailing value in the anti-natalist case? My guess would be "anti-killing." I just don't think that should logically constrain a utilitarian.

(That is, killing could be bad even if life is bad, so that everyone just deciding not to reproduce would be *better* than killing everyone. But wiping everyone out will still be net positive utility points compared to thousands of years of future negative-utility lives).

I find “painlessly wiping out the biosphere” implausible

I posited that killing everyone would be negative-utility. But if we're being utilitarians, it would still be the right thing to do if if it's less painful than the *combined pain* of billions upon billions of lives stretching forwards for thousands upon thousands of years.

(Not being utilitarians is fine, btw. But someone else could be).