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What I originally said was:
"most organisms value having kids over living for a long time."
I said MOST organisms - and referred to a specific example: kids vs lifespan.
Your representation of my position drops the qualifying word "most" and generalises it. That is not a legitimate operation in an argument.
Also, perhaps best to stop using quotation marks when attributing distorted versions of my views to me.
"I said MOST organisms - and referred to a specific example: kids vs lifespan."
You were obviously not excluding humans, since you then said immediately afterward:
"It appears to be fairly easy to trade kids for longer life - adopt a regime of dietary energy restriction. Very few people do that. I figure they mostly value kids over a long life."
If you had said "most organisms would prefer to die in a few years rather than be sterilized, but humans are different because we have more complex value systems" you might at least have a case, but you're very clearly trying to extent your argument from biology to humans (at least most humans) and it very clearly fails.