Do You Share Derrick Parfit's Intuition?

A disaster that killed everyone would be worse than a disaster that just killed a lot of us. Most people get it wrong becase they don't think much about posterity, a and a. And they're just mesmerized by body counts. But the difference between one % of us left and none of us left is actually enormous. We might say we do, but in truth, most people think about their children, their grandchildren. My late grandmother said she'd become a great grandmother, it's hard to be interested in the great grandchildren. There is an enormous number of dead people haunting this world and trying to communicate to us with the books they wrote and the other relics they left behind.