{"items": [{"author": "Victor", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/395151713874719?comment_id=395162717206952", "anchor": "fb-395162717206952", "service": "fb", "text": "No big deal-the future people don't know what they're missing.", "timestamp": "1340892301"}, {"author": "Chris", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/395151713874719?comment_id=395238573866033", "anchor": "fb-395238573866033", "service": "fb", "text": "Victor: How different is that from saying that people who only know abuse their whole life don't matter because they don't know what they're missing?", "timestamp": "1340904396"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/395151713874719?comment_id=395278663862024", "anchor": "fb-395278663862024", "service": "fb", "text": "@Victor: are you joking or are you saying we really shouldn't care what happens to future people?  No reason not to binge drink while pregnant?  Global warming isn't so bad because its worst effects will only be felt by people who don't exist yet?", "timestamp": "1340911304"}, {"author": "Victor", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/395151713874719?comment_id=395286473861243", "anchor": "fb-395286473861243", "service": "fb", "text": "I was joking but I don't see an important difference between 90 and 100%.  Some people think space exploration is important to preserve humanity in case the world becomes unlivable-this strikes me as absurd.", "timestamp": "1340912827"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/395151713874719?comment_id=395381997185024", "anchor": "fb-395381997185024", "service": "fb", "text": "@Victor: Ignoring space exploration, \"people rebuild from catastrophe\" seems way better to me than \"well, we're all dead, that's it\".", "timestamp": "1340932851"}, {"author": "Chris", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/395151713874719?comment_id=395611347162089", "anchor": "fb-395611347162089", "service": "fb", "text": "One way to think about it is that the earth has a carrying capacity.  We're already to the point where we slow down reproduction in industrial countries well below the rate that we're capable of.  If 90% of folks die, all of a sudden there's a lot more room and so we up reproduction rates and it's not a 90% hit on all people that will ever live in the future.  Whereas if we all die, then it is a 100% hit on all people that will ever live in the future.", "timestamp": "1340969319"}]}