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Gee, thanks for that.
People often seem to think that entropy maximisation priinciples imply that organisms should engage in wanton destruction, blowing things up. However, that is far from the case. Causing explosions is usually a very bad way of maximising entropy in the long term - since it tends to destroy the world's best entropy maximisers, living systems. Living systems go on to cause far more devastation than exploding a sun ever could. So, wanton destruction of a sun, is bad - not good - from this perspective.
This is ridiculous. Are you actually proposing entropy maximisation as a reduction of "should", normative ethical theory, etc., or do you just find it humorous to waste our time?