This grossly misinterprets Deutsch. He believes that individual's have rights and rejects utilitarianism. The view isn't "As long as some number of people are able to create knowledge it doesn't matter if lots of people die and/or suffer." It's that cutting off the means of creating knowledgei s wrong, but it applies at every level (individual/institution/nation). People dying is bad.
This grossly misinterprets Deutsch. He believes that individual's have rights and rejects utilitarianism. The view isn't "As long as some number of people are able to create knowledge it doesn't matter if lots of people die and/or suffer." It's that cutting off the means of creating knowledgei s wrong, but it applies at every level (individual/institution/nation). People dying is bad.