“The Lord Pilot shouted, fist held high and triumphant: “To live, and occasionally be unhappy!”″ (three worlds collide) dust specks are just dust specks—in a way its helpful to sometimes have these things.
But the thing changes if you don’t distribute the dust specks 1 per person but 10 per second per person?
In the Least Convenient Possible World of this hypothetical, each and every dust speck causes a small constant amount of harm, with no knock-on effects(no increasing one’s appreciation of the moments when one does not have dust in ones eye, no preventing a ‘boring painless existence,’ nothing of the sort). Now it may be argued whether this would occur with actual dust, but that is not really the question at hand. Dust was just chosen as being a ‘seemingly trivial bad thing.’ and if you prefer some other trivial bad thing, just replace that in the problem and the question remains the same.
“The Lord Pilot shouted, fist held high and triumphant: “To live, and occasionally be unhappy!”″ (three worlds collide) dust specks are just dust specks—in a way its helpful to sometimes have these things.
But the thing changes if you don’t distribute the dust specks 1 per person but 10 per second per person?
In the Least Convenient Possible World of this hypothetical, each and every dust speck causes a small constant amount of harm, with no knock-on effects(no increasing one’s appreciation of the moments when one does not have dust in ones eye, no preventing a ‘boring painless existence,’ nothing of the sort). Now it may be argued whether this would occur with actual dust, but that is not really the question at hand. Dust was just chosen as being a ‘seemingly trivial bad thing.’ and if you prefer some other trivial bad thing, just replace that in the problem and the question remains the same.