Nope, I still think that's wrong. It can't be helped until they develop better technology maybe, but it's wrong. The species in Greg Egan's Orthogonal series was like that. They eventually figured out how to reproduce without dying.
There are things about ourselves that evolution did to us that we ought to change. Like dying of old age, for example. Evolution is not moral. It is indifferent. The Sequences illustrate this very clearly.
It can't be helped until they develop better technology maybe, but it's wrong.
That's not how morality works. If you say that something is wrong, it necessarily follows that the opposite is right. So if it's still wrong in that situation, they should go extinct, rather than waiting for better technology. If something "can't be helped," then that thing cannot be morally wrong, since you cannot blame someone for doing something that cannot be helped, while moral wrongness is something blameworthy.
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