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Exactly my point. [mixed up a) and b) in the last question].
A bad thing about a person's death is the negative externality imposed on those who mourn them dying.
So to equate someone not wanting to kill their child [the equivalent of scenario a), killing a person with people around to mourn them] with someone deciding that the human race, as a whole, deserves to die [which is the equivalent of scenario b)], or to say that this person is a hypocrite, is totally idiotic.
If in the original essay it said it would be hypocritical of someone to say that the human race deserves to die while being unwilling to push the button which instantly ended all human life, then it would make sense.
Why the downvotes on the original reply? Are people so thin-skinned that they can't take their arguments being called stupid, or are they so ignorant that they bury an argument they don't agree with?
No, glutamate. Your original comment was rude and uninteresting. "Stupid" isn't an informative criticism (not even if you specify that the stupidity is "incredible"), and it signals contempt and disrespect besides. Uninformative criticisms that signal that attitude are not readily welcomed here.
You could have said - if I interpret your view correctly, which I may or may not - something like:
That, and it's pretty standard around here to assume that the human species dying off is bad even if it happens in such a way that nobody knows it's happening or happened - it's not actually about suffering, in other words.