They peddle the ridiculous view that belonging to a species that has a large number of members somehow confers some cosmic benefit on the individuals, even if those individuals spend their lives being tortured
you can take the argument further: imagine if we discovered some underground cavern or hidden planet where there was a huge number of humans that we hadn't known had existed, and they were all living in tremendous poverty or suffering of some kind. According to this view, we should be delighted at this discovery because it would represent greater "success" for our species
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