... today, there are roughly five million Finns living in Finland. If something killed us all, every single one of us, just five million lives would have been lost - and an entire peole destroyed utterly. On the other hand, if ten million Russians died, Russia would still be an immensely large country with an immensely large population. Which of these two events would be worse? The death of an entire people, or a great loss of life in a country that has an enormous population that would easily survive such a loss of life? Personally, I cannot judge which would be worse, except by one rule: I would rather have a world that has both Russians and Finns living in it, than have a world that has neither or only one of the two...
