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Old 08-03-2022, 05:32 AM   #39 (permalink)
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Trying not to be snarky, I'll just say that suffering also happened back in the day and was also bad back then.
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If you did something and everyone but you think you're evil, I guess the chances are higher that you did something that caused significantly more suffering than joy.
If the public thinks something is good then how do you prove it's evil? How do you use utilitarianism to show suffering when people will just say it's not suffering or that the joy will outweigh suffering? Is it suffering when you punish a child? Is it suffering when black people don't feel pain the same way whites do? Is it suffering if you're bringing them civilization and salvation?
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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