Taylor
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Within a single generation, on any single moment? Yes. Over the course of time? No.
My problem with what you are and have suggested is that each human is represented by X. Some humans are x+1, and some x+2, but every human by default starts off at x. A human can be x+3 and have a single child who is x-1; a human can be x-2 and have 4 children who are x+1. A human also undergoes changes in societal value over the course of their lives; a mother who is a heart surgeon in her older years is more valuable then than she was when she was a single mother of two in her twenties. Susan Kiefal is more valuable now as the head of the High Court of Australia than she was as a high school dropout in her teens (check her out, she's come a long way).
Who are you to determine future competence based upon any single moment in time?
I haven't disputed that all human lives have the same inherent value but there are definitely skills and attributes valued by the community that increase the value of individuals to that community.
In this circumstance that community needs to be able to survive a generation without starving, so farmers and botanists, environmental science would be a +1 for those people.
I'm not suggesting that I choose anybody. I'm saying that a random selection doesn't account for the needs of the community.