Struggles With Complexity

I recently adopted a worldview in which more complex things are inherently better than less complex things. As in, a dog is better than an amoeba, which is better than an atom, etc. This makes since on an intuitive level, but as I started to consider the implications of this, I felt somewhat disturbed. The main concern is whether more complex evils are worth it. Instead of just a bad thing happiness, in a more complex world this bad thing would be insidious. My main line of reasoning was the…