I find the numbers game entirely morally unsatisfying in all cases where death is concerned. Whether there are fifty million lions or one, it couldn't possibly make me care more about that life than a human being's.
Similarly, and maybe more poignantly, the number of humans alive doesn't somehow devalue human life. If there were ten billion of us instead of seven, that would not make your life less valuable. People are not a commodity.
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