The absolute moral chaos inherent in the debate as to whether Elon “killed” millions of people in the global south is precisely why we do not as a society reason in raw consequentialist terms. Because everyone with agency ends up with uncountable moral culpability for virtually every action or inaction. When distant lives or those 5000 years in the future are worth exactly the same as your own, you end up completely paralyzed. No one reasons like that - aside from shrimp welfare maximizing polycule members in SF - so we can happily disregard the entire debate. All the gotchas and “by your logics” are simply downstream of the fact that consequentialism is an alien and inhuman philosophy that no one real actually espouses.