oh, i understand now the kid in Omelas is genetically engineered for infinite capacity for suffering, so Omelas society is harmonious and prosperous because they all share the single overriding priority of preserving the kid's life at all costs
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Replying to @chaosprime
if I manage to anaesthetize you i can do whatever I want to you its cool
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Replying to @eigenrobot @chaosprime
well, certainly the suffering will be very limited while the anaesthetic condition holds incorporating the _future_ into our ethical models is the unique challenge here
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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime
good point If you believe suffering in life outweighs joy I'm practically obliged to kill you
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I thought you were virtue ethicist what virtue entails death penalty for quantiative belief's
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compassion
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I think simple correction would work best but also your 'compassion' would have aborted Schopenhauer with wait normally I'd estimate is bad but hmmmm we are talking woke ethics and he was a bit of a cancel-able dude right
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Replying to @PereGrimmer @chaosprime and
was digging into the joke. have you never achieved ethical insight by joking around
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is there another method
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Replying to @chaosprime @SilverVVulpes and
also this is literally The Good Place in its entirety
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Replying to @chaosprime @PereGrimmer and
no spoilerino I'm watching it with my sister mid second season and it's helping with just about the one family member I have good relations with left
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