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Would you consider it a good thing if air pollution kills you?



To be fair to the GP, this isn't the point they're making. Your argument would be valid if they were positing "it's not like it's me who's going to die."

They're asking, in good faith, if the effects of pollution-related deaths would have a net benefit to the world due to overpopulation concerns.

Your response is a strawman.




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